Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co, IN
How often Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co goes out
8.9 hours without power across 1.3 outages last year - Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co's Indiana customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 54% more outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co looks like
Outages here average 6.7 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co
Serving 494,852 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co files with federal regulators every year - serving 494,852 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.