Otter Tail Power Co, SD
Otter Tail Power Co's outage record
1.7 separate outages last year, 3.2 hours without power in total - that is Otter Tail Power Co's record for South Dakota, running ahead of the national median. That is 29% less outage time than the South Dakota state average of 4.5 hours a year.
How long a single Otter Tail Power Co outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Otter Tail Power Co
Serving 12,464 customers here, Otter Tail Power Co 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
Otter Tail Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Dakota territory, serving 12,464 customers here, not a single street or outage. See South Dakota as a whole, across every utility that filed: South Dakota's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.