Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative, MN
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative's outage record
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative customers in Minnesota had 1.6 interruptions last year, 2.9 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1×. That is 6% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
How long a single Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative outage runs
At an average of 1.8 hours 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 21,327 customers here, Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative's record was measured
Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Minnesota territory, serving 21,327 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.