Black Hills Power, Inc., WY
Power reliability at Black Hills Power, Inc.
Outages at Black Hills Power, Inc. are uncommon. Wyoming customers on this grid saw 1.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 68 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 74% less outage time than the Wyoming state average of 4.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Black Hills Power, Inc. looks like
At an average of 54 minutes 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
Most Black Hills Power, Inc. customers keep power almost all year. Serving 2,857 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Black Hills Power, Inc. filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wyoming territory, serving 2,857 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Wyoming average instead of just this one utility? Wyoming's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.