Cumberland Elec Member Corp, TN
How often Cumberland Elec Member Corp goes out
Cumberland Elec Member Corp customers in Tennessee had 2.7 interruptions last year, 3.7 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.3×. That is close to the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Cumberland Elec Member Corp looks like
At an average of 83 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Cumberland Elec Member Corp
Serving 113,563 customers here, Cumberland Elec Member Corp customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Cumberland Elec Member Corp filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 113,563 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.