Choctaw Electric Coop Inc, OK
Choctaw Electric Coop Inc's outage record
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Oklahoma's Choctaw Electric Coop Inc customers lost power 4.4 times in the most recent year, 13.4 hours in total. That is 182% more outage time than the Oklahoma state average of 4.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
3.1 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 22,542 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Choctaw Electric Coop Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Choctaw Electric Coop Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Choctaw Electric Coop Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 22,542 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Oklahoma as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oklahoma's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.