Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc, MN
Power reliability at Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc's Minnesota customers saw 2.7 interruptions and 11.5 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 277% more outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc looks like
4.3 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 14,867 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
How Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Wild Rice Electric Coop, Inc files with federal regulators every year - serving 14,867 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.