City of McPherson, KS
Power reliability at City of McPherson
City of McPherson customers in Kansas rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 39 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 80% less outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of McPherson looks like
At an average of 79 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do City of McPherson customers need a generator
Most City of McPherson customers keep power almost all year. Serving 9,018 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 McPherson filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kansas territory, serving 9,018 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Kansas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kansas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.