Duck River Elec Member Corp, TN
Power reliability at Duck River Elec Member Corp
Duck River Elec Member Corp customers in Tennessee had 2.1 interruptions last year, 3.2 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.1×. That is 17% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 89 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Duck River Elec Member Corp
Serving 86,690 customers here, Given how often Duck River Elec Member Corp goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Duck River Elec Member Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 86,690 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Tennessee as a whole, across every utility that filed: Tennessee's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.