Southwestern Electric Coop Inc, IL
Power reliability at Southwestern Electric Coop Inc
Southwestern Electric Coop Inc customers in Illinois had 1.9 interruptions last year, 4 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.4×. That is 67% more outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Southwestern Electric Coop Inc looks like
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Southwestern Electric Coop Inc customers need a generator
Serving 24,810 customers here, Southwestern Electric Coop Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Southwestern Electric Coop Inc's record was measured
Southwestern Electric Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 24,810 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Illinois average instead of just this one utility? Illinois's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.