City of Elk River, MN
City of Elk River's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Elk River's Minnesota customers went without power for only 19 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 90% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
How long a single City of Elk River outage runs
At an average of 63 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Elk River
Serving 13,610 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Elk River customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Elk River's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Elk River files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,610 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.