Lamar County Elec Coop Assn, TX
Power reliability at Lamar County Elec Coop Assn
6.1 hours without power across 2.7 outages last year - Lamar County Elec Coop Assn's Texas customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 64% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
How long a single Lamar County Elec Coop Assn outage runs
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Lamar County Elec Coop Assn
Serving 14,281 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Lamar County Elec Coop Assn's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Lamar County Elec Coop Assn files with federal regulators every year - serving 14,281 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Texas average instead of just this one utility? Texas's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.