Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc, OH
Power reliability at Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc
16.6 hours without electricity across 3.2 separate outages - Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc's record for Ohio puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 385% more outage time than the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc looks like
5.2 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 18,888 customers here, Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
The source behind this number
Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 18,888 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Ohio average instead of just this one utility? Ohio's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.