FreeState Electric Coop, KS
Power reliability at FreeState Electric Coop
0 separate outages last year, 5.6 hours without power in total - that is FreeState Electric Coop's record for Kansas, running ahead of the national median. That is 70% more outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
How long a single FreeState Electric Coop outage runs
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. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do FreeState Electric Coop customers need a generator
Serving 19,144 customers here, FreeState Electric Coop customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How FreeState Electric Coop's record was measured
FreeState Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kansas territory, serving 19,144 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Kansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kansas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.