City of Rolla, MO
Power reliability at City of Rolla
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Rolla's Missouri customers went without power for only 52 minutes across 3 separate outages last year. That is 86% less outage time than the Missouri state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Rolla looks like
At an average of 17 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for City of Rolla
Serving 9,610 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Rolla 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 Rolla files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,610 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Missouri average instead of just this one utility? Missouri's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.