Peace River Electric Coop, Inc, FL
Peace River Electric Coop, Inc's outage record
Peace River Electric Coop, Inc customers in Florida had 1.6 interruptions last year, 2.6 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 121% more outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
What a typical outage at Peace River Electric Coop, Inc looks like
A single outage here averages 1.6 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Peace River Electric Coop, Inc
Serving 70,946 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Peace River Electric Coop, Inc's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Peace River Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 70,946 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Florida as a whole, across every utility that filed: Florida's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.