Southwest Mississippi E P A, MS
Power reliability at Southwest Mississippi E P A
45.6 hours without electricity across 0 separate outages - Southwest Mississippi E P A's record for Mississippi puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 446% more outage time than the Mississippi state average of 8.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Southwest Mississippi E P A looks like
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. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Southwest Mississippi E P A
Serving 25,350 customers here, Southwest Mississippi E P A is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
Where this number comes from
Southwest Mississippi E P A filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Mississippi territory, serving 25,350 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Mississippi as a whole, across every utility that filed: Mississippi's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.