East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn, MS
Power reliability at East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn
Outages at East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn are uncommon. Mississippi customers on this grid saw 2.6 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 6 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 99% less outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
How long a single East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn outage runs
At an average of 2 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn customers need a generator
Most East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn customers keep power almost all year. Serving 12,974 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
East Mississippi Elec Pwr Assn filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 12,974 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Mississippi is covered too: see Mississippi's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.