City of Sturgis, MI
Power reliability at City of Sturgis
City of Sturgis customers in Michigan rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 39 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 94% less outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Sturgis looks like
A single outage here averages 1.8 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Sturgis
Most City of Sturgis customers keep power almost all year. Serving 7,169 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 Sturgis filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Michigan territory, serving 7,169 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Michigan as a whole, across every utility that filed: Michigan's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.