City of St Charles, IL
Power reliability at City of St Charles
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of St Charles's Illinois customers went without power for only 46 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 68% less outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of St Charles looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.8 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of St Charles customers need a generator
Most City of St Charles customers keep power almost all year. Serving 17,027 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 St Charles filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 17,027 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Illinois as a whole, across every utility that filed: Illinois's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.