Washington Elec Member Corp, GA
Washington Elec Member Corp's outage record
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Georgia's Washington Elec Member Corp customers lost power 0 times in the most recent year, 29.8 hours in total. That is 563% more outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
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 Washington Elec Member Corp
Serving 16,863 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Washington Elec Member Corp is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Washington Elec Member Corp's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Washington Elec Member Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 16,863 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Georgia as a whole, across every utility that filed: Georgia's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.