Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp, TX
Power reliability at Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Texas's Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp customers lost power 5.6 times in the most recent year, 22.2 hours in total. That is 493% more outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 4 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 50,881 customers here, Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp 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
Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 50,881 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.