Evergy Metro, KS
Power reliability at Evergy Metro
Kansas's record with Evergy Metro: 1 outages in the most recent filing year, 2.1 hours without power in total, modestly better than the national norm. That is 35% less outage time than the Kansas state average of 3.3 hours a year.
How long a single Evergy Metro outage runs
2.1 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Evergy Metro customers need a generator
Serving 288,273 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - Evergy Metro's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How Evergy Metro's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Evergy Metro files with federal regulators every year - serving 288,273 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Kansas average instead of just this one utility? Kansas's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.