Southern Indiana R E C, Inc, IN
Southern Indiana R E C, Inc's outage record
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Indiana's Southern Indiana R E C, Inc customers lost power 3 times in the most recent year, 14.9 hours in total. That is 159% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 5 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Southern Indiana R E C, Inc customers need a generator
Serving 9,713 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Southern Indiana R E C, Inc is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Southern Indiana R E C, Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Southern Indiana R E C, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,713 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.