Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc, KS
Power reliability at Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc
1.4 separate outages last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - that is Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc's record for Kansas, running ahead of the national median. That is 12% less outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 32,361 customers here, Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Wheatland Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kansas territory, serving 32,361 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Kansas is covered too: see Kansas's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.