City of Anderson, IN
Power reliability at City of Anderson
City of Anderson customers in Indiana are among the worst-served in the country: 3 outages last year, 22.9 hours without power in total. That is 299% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Anderson looks like
Outages here average 7.6 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 34,344 customers here, City of Anderson is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
How City of Anderson's record was measured
City of Anderson filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Indiana territory, serving 34,344 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.