Meade County Rural E C C, KY
Power reliability at Meade County Rural E C C
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Meade County Rural E C C's Kentucky customers saw 2.6 interruptions and 7.4 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 9% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.9 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.
Do Meade County Rural E C C customers need a generator
Serving 31,899 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Meade County Rural E C C's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Meade County Rural E C C files with federal regulators every year - serving 31,899 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Kentucky is covered too: see Kentucky's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.