Salt River Electric Coop Corp, KY
How often Salt River Electric Coop Corp goes out
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Salt River Electric Coop Corp's Kentucky customers saw 2.3 interruptions and 8.5 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 25% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
How long a single Salt River Electric Coop Corp outage runs
3.7 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 57,946 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Salt River Electric Coop Corp's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
How Salt River Electric Coop Corp's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Salt River Electric Coop Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 57,946 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Kentucky as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kentucky's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.