Southwestern Electric Power Co, AR
How often Southwestern Electric Power Co goes out
7.1 hours without power across 1.8 outages last year - Southwestern Electric Power Co's Arkansas customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 8% less outage time than the Arkansas state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Southwestern Electric Power Co outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 3.9 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Southwestern Electric Power Co
Serving 129,162 customers here, Outages at Southwestern Electric Power Co run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
Southwestern Electric Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arkansas territory, serving 129,162 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Arkansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Arkansas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.