Brainerd Public Utilities, MN
How often Brainerd Public Utilities goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Brainerd Public Utilities's Minnesota customers went without power for only 21 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 88% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Brainerd Public Utilities looks like
A single outage here averages 70 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Brainerd Public Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 8,424 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Brainerd Public Utilities's record was measured
Brainerd Public Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Minnesota territory, serving 8,424 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Minnesota as a whole, across every utility that filed: Minnesota's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.