Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc, TX
How often Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc goes out
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc customers in Texas had 0 interruptions last year, 3.2 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.1×. That is 13% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc 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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 15,682 customers here, Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc 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
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 15,682 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Texas average instead of just this one utility? Texas's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.