Verendrye Electric Coop Inc, ND
How often Verendrye Electric Coop Inc goes out
Verendrye Electric Coop Inc customers in North Dakota rarely lose power at all: 0.7 interruptions last year, adding up to just 42 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 80% less outage time than the North Dakota state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Verendrye Electric Coop Inc looks like
A single outage here averages 64 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.
Do Verendrye Electric Coop Inc customers need a generator
Most Verendrye Electric Coop Inc customers keep power almost all year. Serving 20,746 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Verendrye Electric Coop Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Dakota territory, serving 20,746 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the North Dakota average instead of just this one utility? North Dakota's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.