Cotton Electric Coop, Inc, OK
How often Cotton Electric Coop, Inc goes out
9.2 hours without power across 4.1 outages last year - Cotton Electric Coop, Inc's Oklahoma customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 92% more outage time than the Oklahoma state average of 4.8 hours a year.
How long a single Cotton Electric Coop, Inc outage runs
Outages here average 2.3 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 23,781 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Cotton Electric Coop, Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Cotton Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 23,781 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Oklahoma is covered too: see Oklahoma's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.