Wake Electric Membership Corp, NC
Power reliability at Wake Electric Membership Corp
1.9 separate outages last year, 3.5 hours without power in total - that is Wake Electric Membership Corp's record for North Carolina, running ahead of the national median. That is 8% more outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1.8 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 58,110 customers here, Wake Electric Membership Corp customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Wake Electric Membership Corp filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 58,110 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.