Nebraska Public Power District, NE
Power reliability at Nebraska Public Power District
0.9 separate outages last year, 3.3 hours without power in total - that is Nebraska Public Power District's record for Nebraska, running ahead of the national median. That is 64% less outage time than the Nebraska state average of 9.1 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here runs long, about 3.6 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Nebraska Public Power District
Serving 95,148 customers here, Nebraska Public Power District customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Nebraska Public Power District filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Nebraska territory, serving 95,148 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Nebraska as a whole, across every utility that filed: Nebraska's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.