Corn Belt Energy Corporation, IL
How often Corn Belt Energy Corporation goes out
Corn Belt Energy Corporation customers in Illinois are among the worst-served in the country: 7.7 outages last year, 22.7 hours without power in total. That is 847% more outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
How long a single Corn Belt Energy Corporation outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Corn Belt Energy Corporation
Serving 37,409 customers here, Corn Belt Energy Corporation 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.
Where this number comes from
Corn Belt Energy Corporation filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 37,409 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Illinois average instead of just this one utility? Illinois's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.