City of Alexandria, MN
Power reliability at City of Alexandria
City of Alexandria customers in Minnesota rarely lose power at all: 0.3 interruptions last year, adding up to just 16 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 92% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Alexandria looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 57 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 10,817 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Alexandria 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 City of Alexandria files with federal regulators every year - serving 10,817 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Minnesota average instead of just this one utility? Minnesota's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.