Ozarks Electric Coop Corp, AR
Ozarks Electric Coop Corp's outage record
11.3 hours without power across 1.7 outages last year - Ozarks Electric Coop Corp's Arkansas customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 46% more outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Ozarks Electric Coop Corp outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 6.7 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Ozarks Electric Coop Corp
Serving 81,038 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Ozarks Electric Coop 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 Ozarks Electric Coop Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 81,038 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Arkansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Arkansas's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.