City of Independence, IA
How often City of Independence goes out
Outages at City of Independence are uncommon. Iowa customers on this grid saw 0.2 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 17 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 89% less outage time than the Iowa state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Independence looks like
A single outage here averages 1.9 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 3,196 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Independence 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 Independence files with federal regulators every year - serving 3,196 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Iowa as a whole, across every utility that filed: Iowa's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.