Union Electric Membership Corp, NC
Power reliability at Union Electric Membership Corp
Outages at Union Electric Membership Corp are uncommon. North Carolina customers on this grid saw 0.7 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 52 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 74% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Union Electric Membership Corp looks like
A single outage here averages 76 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Union Electric Membership Corp
Serving 88,138 customers here, With a record this steady, Union Electric Membership Corp customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Union Electric Membership Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 88,138 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.