Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc, CO
Power reliability at Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc
Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc customers in Colorado had 2 interruptions last year, 4.5 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.6×. That is close to the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc
Serving 29,128 customers here, Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc's record was measured
Yampa Valley Electric Assn Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Colorado territory, serving 29,128 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Colorado average instead of just this one utility? Colorado's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.