Eastern Maine Electric Coop, ME
How often Eastern Maine Electric Coop goes out
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Maine's Eastern Maine Electric Coop customers lost power 7.2 times in the most recent year, 16.5 hours in total. That is 173% more outage time than the Maine state average of 6.1 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Eastern Maine Electric Coop customers need a generator
Serving 13,265 customers here, Eastern Maine Electric Coop 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.
The source behind this number
Eastern Maine Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Maine territory, serving 13,265 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Maine average instead of just this one utility? Maine's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.