Cobb Electric Membership Corp, GA
Cobb Electric Membership Corp's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Cobb Electric Membership Corp's Georgia customers went without power for only 48 minutes across 0.9 separate outages last year. That is 82% less outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 55 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Cobb Electric Membership Corp customers need a generator
Serving 222,657 customers here, With a record this steady, Cobb Electric Membership Corp customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Cobb Electric Membership Corp's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Cobb Electric Membership Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 222,657 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Georgia average instead of just this one utility? Georgia's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.