City of Chaska, MN
City of Chaska's outage record
City of Chaska customers in Minnesota rarely lose power at all: 0.3 interruptions last year, adding up to just 7 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 96% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 25 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.
Do City of Chaska customers need a generator
Serving 12,376 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Chaska 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 Chaska files with federal regulators every year - serving 12,376 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Minnesota as a whole, across every utility that filed: Minnesota's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.