McMinnville Electric System, TN
McMinnville Electric System's outage record
McMinnville Electric System customers in Tennessee rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 31 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 87% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single McMinnville Electric System outage runs
Outages here average 2.2 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 8,284 customers here, With a record this steady, McMinnville Electric System customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like McMinnville Electric System files with federal regulators every year - serving 8,284 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.