Delta Electric Power Assn, MS
Delta Electric Power Assn's outage record
32.4 hours without electricity across 5.8 separate outages - Delta Electric Power Assn's record for Mississippi puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 287% more outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 5.6 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 28,950 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Delta Electric Power Assn is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Delta Electric Power Assn files with federal regulators every year - serving 28,950 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Mississippi as a whole, across every utility that filed: Mississippi's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.