MiEnergy Cooperative, IA
MiEnergy Cooperative's outage record
MiEnergy Cooperative customers in Iowa had 0.9 interruptions last year, 1.7 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 33% less outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at MiEnergy Cooperative looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 2 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for MiEnergy Cooperative
Serving 7,311 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - MiEnergy Cooperative's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like MiEnergy Cooperative files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,311 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Iowa is covered too: see Iowa's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.