Tri-County Electric Coop (MI), MI
Tri-County Electric Coop (MI)'s outage record
Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) customers in Michigan are among the worst-served in the country: 1.8 outages last year, 19.2 hours without power in total. That is 72% more outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
How long a single Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) outage runs
10.6 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Tri-County Electric Coop (MI)
Serving 27,394 customers here, Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) 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.
The source behind this number
Tri-County Electric Coop (MI) filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Michigan territory, serving 27,394 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Michigan as a whole, across every utility that filed: Michigan's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.