Y-W Electric Assn Inc, CO
Y-W Electric Assn Inc's outage record
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Y-W Electric Assn Inc's Colorado customers saw 0 interruptions and 11.7 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 156% more outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 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. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 8,832 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Y-W Electric Assn Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Y-W Electric Assn Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 8,832 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.