Southern Pine Electric Cooperative, MS
How often Southern Pine Electric Cooperative goes out
10.8 hours without power across 5.5 outages last year - Southern Pine Electric Cooperative's Mississippi customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 29% more outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Southern Pine Electric Cooperative looks like
At an average of 2 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.
Do Southern Pine Electric Cooperative customers need a generator
Serving 70,472 customers here, Outages at Southern Pine Electric Cooperative run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
Where this number comes from
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 70,472 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Mississippi as a whole, across every utility that filed: Mississippi's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.