Valley Electric Assn, Inc, NV
Power reliability at Valley Electric Assn, Inc
Valley Electric Assn, Inc customers in Nevada had 0.8 interruptions last year, 1.5 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 27% less outage time than the Nevada state average of 2.1 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Valley Electric Assn, Inc looks like
At an average of 1.8 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 24,626 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Valley Electric Assn, Inc's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Valley Electric Assn, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 24,626 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Nevada average instead of just this one utility? Nevada's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.