Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp, AR
Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp's outage record
1.9 separate outages last year, 5.3 hours without power in total - that is Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp's record for Arkansas, running ahead of the national median. That is 32% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.7 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 21,058 customers here, Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp's record was measured
Petit Jean Electric Coop Corp filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 21,058 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Arkansas is covered too: see Arkansas's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.