Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc, MD
Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc's outage record
Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc customers in Maryland had 1.6 interruptions last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1×. That is 6% less outage time than the Maryland state average of 3.1 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. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc
Serving 180,658 customers here, Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Maryland territory, serving 180,658 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Maryland as a whole, across every utility that filed: Maryland's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.