La Plata Electric Assn, Inc, CO
How often La Plata Electric Assn, Inc goes out
1.7 separate outages last year, 3.6 hours without power in total - that is La Plata Electric Assn, Inc's record for Colorado, running ahead of the national median. That is 20% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 47,128 customers here, La Plata Electric Assn, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How La Plata Electric Assn, Inc's record was measured
La Plata 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 47,128 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.