Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc, SC
Power reliability at Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc
Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc customers in South Carolina had 0 interruptions last year, 3.4 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 36% more outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc
Serving 74,014 customers here, Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc's record was measured
Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 74,014 customers here, not a single street or outage. See South Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: South Carolina's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.