East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop, IA
Power reliability at East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop
East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop customers in Iowa rarely lose power at all: 0.9 interruptions last year, adding up to just 67 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 56% less outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
How long a single East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop outage runs
At an average of 76 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 East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop
Most East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop customers keep power almost all year. Serving 9,238 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
East-Central Iowa Rural Elec Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Iowa territory, serving 9,238 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Iowa is covered too: see Iowa's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.