Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC, CO
How often Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC goes out
Colorado's record with Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC: 0.9 outages in the most recent filing year, 1.6 hours without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 65% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC looks like
At an average of 1.8 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 111,502 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Black Hills Colorado Electric, LLC files with federal regulators every year - serving 111,502 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.