Pickwick Electric Coop, TN
Pickwick Electric Coop's outage record
9.7 hours without power across 0 outages last year - Pickwick Electric Coop's Tennessee customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 152% more outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 21,506 customers here, Outages at Pickwick Electric Coop run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
Pickwick Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 21,506 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Tennessee as a whole, across every utility that filed: Tennessee's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.