Still wondering about the co-op power in TX works. Two different people on two different co-ops had a total outage of 20 minutes total. I had co-op when I lived there. The good part about it was the office/yard for all the workers and repair stuff was 15 minutes away.
I am on co-op power in the DFW area and had zero minutes of outage, but the co-op outage map was showing up to 30% of their customers (residences) were without power. I watched the map on Monday, and it looked like they were pretty good about cycling people every 2 hours.
If I was to guess why this particular neighborhood stayed online, I would surmise that we are on the same grid as some emergency building. I think the main Police Station and 911 call center may be on the same "block" as us.
It may be the case, for co-ops in general, they they were better prepared with diverse hedges on where they sourced power from, whereas other companies, like Centerpoint, tried to use Wind and Solar as their primary/only hedge.
Internet was down for most of the area from Monday at 8 am to Wed at 5 pm, which clogged up the cell tower traffic even worse (since people w/o power were on their cell, while sitting in their car to keep it charged & them warm). So work from home was screwed for most everyone, regardless.
P.S. All the numbers of "people" without power are actually residences without power. So, you can at least double that number if not triple it, to get close to the true amount of people that were w/o power.