South Kentucky Rural E C C, KY
Power reliability at South Kentucky Rural E C C
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Kentucky's South Kentucky Rural E C C customers lost power 3 times in the most recent year, 22.8 hours in total. That is 235% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 7.6 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for South Kentucky Rural E C C
Serving 73,125 customers here, South Kentucky Rural E C C 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.
Where this number comes from
South Kentucky Rural E C C filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kentucky territory, serving 73,125 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Kentucky average instead of just this one utility? Kentucky's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.