Daviess Martin County R E M C, IN
Power reliability at Daviess Martin County R E M C
10.3 hours without power across 1.8 outages last year - Daviess Martin County R E M C's Indiana customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 80% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 5.9 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 8,692 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Daviess Martin County R E M C's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Daviess Martin County R E M C files with federal regulators every year - serving 8,692 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.