MiEnergy Cooperative, MN
How often MiEnergy Cooperative goes out
MiEnergy Cooperative customers in Minnesota had 1.1 interruptions last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.2×. That is 17% more outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at MiEnergy Cooperative looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 3.3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for MiEnergy Cooperative
Serving 16,405 customers here, MiEnergy Cooperative customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
MiEnergy Cooperative filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Minnesota territory, serving 16,405 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.