Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc, OH
Power reliability at Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc
Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc customers in Ohio had 0 interruptions last year, 3.6 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is close to the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc looks like
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc
Serving 16,897 customers here, Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc 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
Lorain-Medina R E C, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 16,897 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Ohio average instead of just this one utility? Ohio's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.