Northern Lights, Inc, WA
How often Northern Lights, Inc goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Northern Lights, Inc's Washington customers went without power for only 1 minutes across 0 separate outages last year. That is 100% less outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Northern Lights, Inc looks like
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
Most Northern Lights, Inc customers keep power almost all year. Serving 18 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Northern Lights, Inc's record was measured
Northern Lights, Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 18 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Washington as a whole, across every utility that filed: Washington's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.