Great Lakes Energy Coop, MI
Great Lakes Energy Coop's outage record
Great Lakes Energy Coop customers in Michigan are among the worst-served in the country: 4.1 outages last year, 73.3 hours without power in total. That is 555% more outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
How long a single Great Lakes Energy Coop outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 17.9 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Great Lakes Energy Coop
Serving 133,028 customers here, Great Lakes Energy 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.
Where this number comes from
Great Lakes Energy Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Michigan territory, serving 133,028 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Michigan average instead of just this one utility? Michigan's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.