Cooke County Elec Coop Assn, TX
Power reliability at Cooke County Elec Coop Assn
5.8 hours without power across 2.3 outages last year - Cooke County Elec Coop Assn's Texas customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 56% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Cooke County Elec Coop Assn looks like
Outages here average 2.5 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Cooke County Elec Coop Assn
Serving 18,583 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Cooke County Elec Coop Assn's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Cooke County Elec Coop Assn files with federal regulators every year - serving 18,583 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.