Prairie Energy Coop, IA
Power reliability at Prairie Energy Coop
Prairie Energy Coop customers in Iowa lost power 3.1 times last year, 7.1 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 182% more outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Prairie Energy Coop looks like
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Prairie Energy Coop
Serving 4,310 customers here, Outages at Prairie Energy Coop run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
Where this number comes from
Prairie Energy Coop filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Iowa territory, serving 4,310 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Iowa as a whole, across every utility that filed: Iowa's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.