Southwestern Electric Power Co, LA
Southwestern Electric Power Co's outage record
7.5 hours without power across 3 outages last year - Southwestern Electric Power Co's Louisiana customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 69% more outage time than the Louisiana state average of 4.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Southwestern Electric Power Co looks like
2.5 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Southwestern Electric Power Co customers need a generator
Serving 191,414 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 Louisiana territory, serving 191,414 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Louisiana is covered too: see Louisiana's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.