Mitchell Electric Member Corp, GA
Power reliability at Mitchell Electric Member Corp
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Mitchell Electric Member Corp's Georgia customers saw 3.7 interruptions and 6.8 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 52% more outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Mitchell Electric Member Corp 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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Mitchell Electric Member Corp customers need a generator
Serving 25,616 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Mitchell Electric Member Corp'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 Mitchell Electric Member Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 25,616 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Georgia is covered too: see Georgia's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.