Medina Electric Coop, Inc, TX
Power reliability at Medina Electric Coop, Inc
Medina Electric Coop, Inc customers in Texas had 2.7 interruptions last year, 5 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.7×. That is 33% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Medina Electric Coop, Inc looks like
At an average of 1.8 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 Medina Electric Coop, Inc customers need a generator
Serving 36,770 customers here, Medina Electric Coop, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Medina Electric Coop, Inc's record was measured
Medina Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 36,770 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.