Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative, VA
Power reliability at Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative
Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative customers in Virginia are among the worst-served in the country: 2.8 outages last year, 12 hours without power in total. That is 56% more outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 4.3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative
Serving 31,280 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative files with federal regulators every year - serving 31,280 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Virginia is covered too: see Virginia's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.