Empire Electric Assn, Inc, CO
How often Empire Electric Assn, Inc goes out
1.4 separate outages last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - that is Empire Electric Assn, Inc's record for Colorado, running ahead of the national median. That is 36% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Empire Electric Assn, Inc looks like
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 17,322 customers here, Empire Electric Assn, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Empire Electric Assn, Inc's record was measured
Empire Electric Assn, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Colorado territory, serving 17,322 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.