Matanuska Electric Assn Inc, AK
How often Matanuska Electric Assn Inc goes out
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Alaska's Matanuska Electric Assn Inc customers lost power 4.1 times in the most recent year, 18.9 hours in total. That is 110% more outage time than the Alaska state average of 9 hours a year.
How long a single Matanuska Electric Assn Inc outage runs
4.7 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Matanuska Electric Assn Inc
Serving 71,871 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Matanuska Electric Assn Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Matanuska Electric Assn Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Matanuska Electric Assn Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 71,871 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Alaska as a whole, across every utility that filed: Alaska's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.