City of Springfield, IL
How often City of Springfield goes out
City of Springfield customers in Illinois rarely lose power at all: 0.8 interruptions last year, adding up to just 71 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 51% less outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Springfield looks like
At an average of 90 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Springfield
Serving 69,427 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Springfield 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 Springfield files with federal regulators every year - serving 69,427 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Illinois as a whole, across every utility that filed: Illinois's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.