Northern Lights, Inc, ID
How often Northern Lights, Inc goes out
17.6 hours without electricity across 0 separate outages - Northern Lights, Inc's record for Idaho puts it near the bottom of every utility on file. That is 227% more outage time than the Idaho state average of 5.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Northern Lights, Inc
Serving 19,250 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Northern Lights, Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Northern Lights, Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Northern Lights, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 19,250 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Idaho is covered too: see Idaho's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.