Central Virginia Electric Coop, VA
Central Virginia Electric Coop's outage record
13.3 hours without electricity across 5 separate outages - Central Virginia Electric Coop's record for Virginia puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 72% more outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Central Virginia Electric Coop outage runs
2.6 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Central Virginia Electric Coop
Serving 39,308 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Central Virginia Electric Coop is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Central Virginia Electric Coop files with federal regulators every year - serving 39,308 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Virginia average instead of just this one utility? Virginia's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.