Iowa Lakes Electric Coop, IA
Iowa Lakes Electric Coop's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Iowa Lakes Electric Coop's Iowa customers went without power for only 55 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 64% less outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Iowa Lakes Electric Coop looks like
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Iowa Lakes Electric Coop customers need a generator
Most Iowa Lakes Electric Coop customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,283 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Iowa Lakes Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Iowa territory, serving 13,283 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.