Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop, KY
How often Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop goes out
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Kentucky's Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop customers lost power 4.3 times in the most recent year, 16.4 hours in total. That is 142% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
3.8 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. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop
Serving 47,560 customers here, Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop 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.
The source behind this number
Pennyrile Rural Electric Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kentucky territory, serving 47,560 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Kentucky is covered too: see Kentucky's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.