Continental Divide El Coop Inc, NM
Power reliability at Continental Divide El Coop Inc
1.5 separate outages last year, 3.9 hours without power in total - that is Continental Divide El Coop Inc's record for New Mexico, running ahead of the national median. That is 36% more outage time than the New Mexico state average of 2.9 hours a year.
How long a single Continental Divide El Coop Inc outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.6 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Continental Divide El Coop Inc customers need a generator
Serving 23,663 customers here, Continental Divide El Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Continental Divide El Coop Inc's record was measured
Continental Divide El Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire New Mexico territory, serving 23,663 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the New Mexico average instead of just this one utility? New Mexico's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.