Cedar Falls Utilities, IA
Power reliability at Cedar Falls Utilities
Outages at Cedar Falls Utilities are uncommon. Iowa customers on this grid saw 0.5 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 37 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 75% 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 69 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 Cedar Falls Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 19,816 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Cedar Falls Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Iowa territory, serving 19,816 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Iowa as a whole, across every utility that filed: Iowa's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.