Powder River Energy Corp, WY
Power reliability at Powder River Energy Corp
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Powder River Energy Corp's Wyoming customers saw 3.5 interruptions and 9.5 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 118% more outage time than the Wyoming state average of 4.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Powder River Energy Corp looks like
2.7 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Powder River Energy Corp
Serving 27,766 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Powder River Energy Corp'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 a member-owned cooperative like Powder River Energy Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 27,766 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Wyoming is covered too: see Wyoming's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.