High Plains Power Inc, WY
High Plains Power Inc's outage record
High Plains Power Inc customers in Wyoming had 0 interruptions last year, 5.3 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.9×. That is 22% more outage time than the Wyoming state average of 4.4 hours a year.
How long a single High Plains Power Inc outage runs
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for High Plains Power Inc
Serving 14,035 customers here, High Plains Power Inc customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
High Plains Power Inc filed these numbers itself, as a member-owned cooperative, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wyoming territory, serving 14,035 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Wyoming is covered too: see Wyoming's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.