City of Grand Island, NE
City of Grand Island's outage record
Outages at City of Grand Island are uncommon. Nebraska customers on this grid saw 1 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 37 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 93% less outage time than the Nebraska state average of 9.1 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Grand Island looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 37 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Grand Island customers keep power almost all year. Serving 27,291 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Grand Island filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Nebraska territory, serving 27,291 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Nebraska as a whole, across every utility that filed: Nebraska's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.