Citizens Electric Corporation, MO
Power reliability at Citizens Electric Corporation
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. Missouri's Citizens Electric Corporation customers lost power 3.9 times in the most recent year, 28.1 hours in total. That is 357% more outage time than the Missouri state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Citizens Electric Corporation looks like
7.3 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Citizens Electric Corporation customers need a generator
Serving 28,056 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Citizens Electric Corporation is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
How Citizens Electric Corporation's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Citizens Electric Corporation files with federal regulators every year - serving 28,056 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Missouri is covered too: see Missouri's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.