Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc, IN
Power reliability at Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc
Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc customers in Indiana are among the worst-served in the country: 3.4 outages last year, 12.7 hours without power in total. That is 121% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
How long a single Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 3.7 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.
Do Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc customers need a generator
Serving 20,030 customers here, Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc 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
Utilities Dist-Western IN Remc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Indiana territory, serving 20,030 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.