Lake Region Electric Cooperative, MN
Lake Region Electric Cooperative's outage record
1.6 separate outages last year, 3.8 hours without power in total - that is Lake Region Electric Cooperative's record for Minnesota, running ahead of the national median. That is 25% more outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.4 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Lake Region Electric Cooperative
Serving 30,079 customers here, Lake Region Electric Cooperative customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Lake Region 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 30,079 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.