Kankakee Valley Rural E M C, IN
Power reliability at Kankakee Valley Rural E M C
Kankakee Valley Rural E M C customers in Indiana lost power 6.5 times last year, 6.9 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 20% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Kankakee Valley Rural E M C looks like
A single outage here averages 64 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Kankakee Valley Rural E M C
Serving 21,743 customers here, Outages at Kankakee Valley Rural E M C run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
How Kankakee Valley Rural E M C's record was measured
Kankakee Valley Rural E M C filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Indiana territory, serving 21,743 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Indiana is covered too: see Indiana's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.