City of Hastings, NE
Power reliability at City of Hastings
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Hastings's Nebraska customers went without power for only 50 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 91% less outage time than the Nebraska state average of 9.1 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.7 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 13,960 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Hastings 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 Hastings files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,960 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Nebraska as a whole, across every utility that filed: Nebraska's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.