Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc, LA
How often Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc goes out
Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc customers in Louisiana lost power 5.2 times last year, 8.5 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 92% more outage time than the Louisiana state average of 4.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc looks like
A single outage here averages 1.6 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc
Serving 55,871 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 55,871 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Louisiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Louisiana's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.