Midland Power Coop, IA
How often Midland Power Coop goes out
8.1 hours without power across 1.8 outages last year - Midland Power Coop's Iowa customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 222% more outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Midland Power Coop looks like
4.5 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. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 12,717 customers here, Outages at Midland Power Coop run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
The source behind this number
Midland Power Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Iowa territory, serving 12,717 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Iowa as a whole, across every utility that filed: Iowa's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.