Board of Water Electric & Communications, IA
Power reliability at Board of Water Electric & Communications
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Board of Water Electric & Communications's Iowa customers went without power for only 19 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 87% less outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 71 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Board of Water Electric & Communications
Serving 11,627 customers here, With a record this steady, Board of Water Electric & Communications customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Board of Water Electric & Communications files with federal regulators every year - serving 11,627 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Iowa as a whole, across every utility that filed: Iowa's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.