Coastal Electric Member Corp, GA
How often Coastal Electric Member Corp goes out
2.5 separate outages last year, 3.8 hours without power in total - that is Coastal Electric Member Corp's record for Georgia, running ahead of the national median. That is 15% less outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Coastal Electric Member Corp looks like
At an average of 1.5 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Coastal Electric Member Corp
Serving 24,542 customers here, Coastal Electric Member Corp customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Coastal Electric Member Corp's record was measured
Coastal Electric Member Corp filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Georgia territory, serving 24,542 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Georgia is covered too: see Georgia's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.