San Patricio Electric Coop Inc, TX
San Patricio Electric Coop Inc's outage record
2.2 separate outages last year, 4 hours without power in total - that is San Patricio Electric Coop Inc's record for Texas, running ahead of the national median. That is 7% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1.8 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for San Patricio Electric Coop Inc
Serving 12,600 customers here, San Patricio Electric Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How San Patricio Electric Coop Inc's record was measured
San Patricio 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 12,600 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.