City of Brookings, SD
Power reliability at City of Brookings
Outages at City of Brookings are uncommon. South Dakota customers on this grid saw 0.1 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 13 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 95% less outage time than the South Dakota state average of 4.5 hours a year.
How long a single City of Brookings outage runs
Outages here average 2.6 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Brookings customers need a generator
Most City of Brookings customers keep power almost all year. Serving 12,388 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Brookings filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Dakota territory, serving 12,388 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in South Dakota is covered too: see South Dakota's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.