A & N Electric Coop, MD
Power reliability at A & N Electric Coop
Maryland's record with A & N Electric Coop: 2.3 outages in the most recent filing year, 79 minutes without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 57% less outage time than the Maryland state average of 3.1 hours a year.
What a typical outage at A & N Electric Coop looks like
A single outage here averages 35 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for A & N Electric Coop
Serving 325 customers here, Outages at A & N Electric Coop run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
A & N Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Maryland territory, serving 325 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Maryland as a whole, across every utility that filed: Maryland's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.