Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation, KY
Power reliability at Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation
Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation customers in Kentucky lost power 3 times last year, 6.6 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is close to the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation
Serving 30,865 customers here, Outages at Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
Jackson Purchase Energy Corporation filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kentucky territory, serving 30,865 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Kentucky as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kentucky's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.