Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp, KY
How often Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp goes out
31.6 hours without electricity across 5.8 separate outages - Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp's record for Kentucky puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 365% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
How long a single Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp outage runs
5.4 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp
Serving 12,399 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Big Sandy Rural Elec Coop Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 12,399 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Kentucky average instead of just this one utility? Kentucky's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.