Lane Electric Coop Inc, OR
Lane Electric Coop Inc's outage record
18 hours without electricity across 2.9 separate outages - Lane Electric Coop Inc's record for Oregon puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 321% more outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
How long a single Lane Electric Coop Inc outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 6.1 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 13,502 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Lane Electric Coop Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Lane Electric Coop Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,502 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Oregon as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oregon's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.