Santee Electric Coop, Inc, SC
Santee Electric Coop, Inc's outage record
0 separate outages last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - that is Santee Electric Coop, Inc's record for South Carolina, running ahead of the national median. That is 40% more outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 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 45,110 customers here, Santee 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
Santee Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 45,110 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in South Carolina is covered too: see South Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.