City of Geneva, IL
Power reliability at City of Geneva
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Geneva's Illinois customers went without power for only 38 minutes across 1 separate outages last year. That is 73% less outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
How long a single City of Geneva outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 38 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 Geneva customers need a generator
Most City of Geneva customers keep power almost all year. Serving 10,246 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Geneva's record was measured
City of Geneva filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 10,246 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Illinois is covered too: see Illinois's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.