City of Worthington, MN
Power reliability at City of Worthington
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Worthington's Minnesota customers went without power for only 8 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 96% less outage time than the Minnesota state average of 3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Worthington looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 41 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 5,531 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Worthington 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 Worthington files with federal regulators every year - serving 5,531 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Minnesota as a whole, across every utility that filed: Minnesota's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.