City of Richmond, IN
Power reliability at City of Richmond
City of Richmond customers in Indiana had 0.9 interruptions last year, 79 minutes total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 77% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Richmond looks like
At an average of 1.5 hours 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 Richmond customers need a generator
Serving 21,420 customers here, Outages at City of Richmond run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of Richmond filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Indiana territory, serving 21,420 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.