Laurens Electric Coop, Inc, SC
Power reliability at Laurens Electric Coop, Inc
Laurens Electric Coop, Inc customers in South Carolina had 1.8 interruptions last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 40% more outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
How long a single Laurens Electric Coop, Inc outage runs
At an average of 2 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Laurens Electric Coop, Inc customers need a generator
Serving 64,821 customers here, Laurens Electric Coop, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Laurens Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 64,821 customers here, not a single street or outage. See South Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: South Carolina's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.