Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn, MS
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn's outage record
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn customers in Mississippi had 3.8 interruptions last year, 4.9 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.7×. That is 41% less outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 78 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn customers need a generator
Serving 54,018 customers here, Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Pearl River Valley El Pwr Assn filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 54,018 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Mississippi is covered too: see Mississippi's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.