Lea County Electric Coop, Inc, TX
Power reliability at Lea County Electric Coop, Inc
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Lea County Electric Coop, Inc's Texas customers saw 4 interruptions and 6.3 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 69% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Lea County Electric Coop, Inc looks like
At an average of 1.6 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Lea County Electric Coop, Inc customers need a generator
Serving 5,563 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Lea County Electric Coop, Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Lea County Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 5,563 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. Storm days are counted in - here is why.