Rosebud Electric Coop Inc, SD
Rosebud Electric Coop Inc's outage record
Power from Rosebud Electric Coop Inc went out 0.8 times last year across its South Dakota territory, 2.3 hours in total - a little steadier than most of the country. That is 48% less outage time than the South Dakota state average of 4.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Rosebud Electric Coop Inc looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 3 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Rosebud Electric Coop Inc
Serving 5,657 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Rosebud Electric Coop Inc's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Rosebud Electric Coop Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 5,657 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See South Dakota as a whole, across every utility that filed: South Dakota's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.