Northeastern Rural E M C, IN
How often Northeastern Rural E M C goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Northeastern Rural E M C's Indiana customers went without power for only 57 minutes across 0.9 separate outages last year. That is 84% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 61 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Northeastern Rural E M C customers need a generator
Most Northeastern Rural E M C customers keep power almost all year. Serving 32,900 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Northeastern Rural E M C filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Indiana territory, serving 32,900 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.