Missoula Electric Coop, Inc, MT
Power reliability at Missoula Electric Coop, Inc
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Montana's Missoula Electric Coop, Inc customers lost power 2.4 times in the most recent year, 22.2 hours in total. That is 362% more outage time than the Montana state average of 4.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Missoula Electric Coop, Inc looks like
9.2 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 17,426 customers here, Missoula Electric Coop, Inc is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
How Missoula Electric Coop, Inc's record was measured
Missoula Electric Coop, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Montana territory, serving 17,426 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Montana average instead of just this one utility? Montana's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.