Guides

• How OutageRiskCheck Reads Your Utility's Outage Record — What SAIDI, SAIFI and CAIDI mean, which EIA filing they come from, and how they become a generator verdict.
• Battery, Portable or Standby Generator? It Depends on How Long Your Outages Last — Why outage length, not outage count, decides what kind of backup power fits - and how many US utilities fall into each group.
• Why Rural Co-ops Lose Power More Often Than City-Owned Utilities — Median outage time by utility ownership type, from every utility's own federal filing - and why the gap exists.
• Why One Big Storm Can Make a Utility Look Unreliable — How major event days work in utility reliability data, why this site keeps them in, and how to read a single bad year.