City of Greenfield, IN
How often City of Greenfield goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Greenfield's Indiana customers went without power for only 17 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 95% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 72 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Greenfield
Serving 13,000 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Greenfield customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Greenfield files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,000 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Indiana average instead of just this one utility? Indiana's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.