Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn, TX
How often Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn goes out
Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn customers in Texas are among the worst-served in the country: 5.4 outages last year, 14 hours without power in total. That is 274% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn looks like
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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn
Serving 24,241 customers here, Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
Where this number comes from
Cherokee County Elec Coop Assn filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 24,241 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.