City of Austin, MN
Power reliability at City of Austin
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Austin's Minnesota customers went without power for only 8 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 96% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Austin looks like
At an average of 42 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.
The generator question for City of Austin
Most City of Austin customers keep power almost all year. Serving 11,853 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Austin's record was measured
City of Austin filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Minnesota territory, serving 11,853 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Minnesota as a whole, across every utility that filed: Minnesota's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.