Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc, FL
Power reliability at Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc
Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc customers in Florida had 2.6 interruptions last year, 3.4 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 192% more outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
What a typical outage at Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 79 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 196,630 customers here, Given how often Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
How Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 196,630 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Florida is covered too: see Florida's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.