Johnson County Rural E M C, IN
Power reliability at Johnson County Rural E M C
Indiana's record with Johnson County Rural E M C: 1.2 outages in the most recent filing year, 2 hours without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 65% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1.6 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 32,127 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Johnson County Rural E M C's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How Johnson County Rural E M C's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Johnson County Rural E M C files with federal regulators every year - serving 32,127 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.