Edisto Electric Coop, Inc, SC
How often Edisto Electric Coop, Inc goes out
Edisto Electric Coop, Inc customers in South Carolina had 0 interruptions last year, 3.9 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.4×. That is 56% more outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Edisto Electric Coop, Inc
Serving 21,495 customers here, Edisto Electric Coop, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Edisto Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 21,495 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in South Carolina is covered too: see South Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.