Prince George Electric Coop, VA
Power reliability at Prince George Electric Coop
6.4 hours without power across 0 outages last year - Prince George Electric Coop's Virginia customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 17% less outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Prince George Electric Coop looks like
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. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Prince George Electric Coop customers need a generator
Serving 13,341 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Prince George Electric Coop's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Prince George Electric Coop files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,341 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Virginia is covered too: see Virginia's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.