Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc, TX
Power reliability at Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc
Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc customers in Texas had 1.5 interruptions last year, 3.6 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 5% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A typical outage here runs about 2.4 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 16,141 customers here, Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Bartlett Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 16,141 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.