City of Batavia, IL
How often City of Batavia goes out
City of Batavia customers in Illinois had 0.6 interruptions last year, 1.5 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 37% less outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.5 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Batavia customers need a generator
Serving 10,737 customers here, Outages at City of Batavia run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
How City of Batavia's record was measured
City of Batavia filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 10,737 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Illinois as a whole, across every utility that filed: Illinois's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.