Rochelle Municipal Utilities, IL
How often Rochelle Municipal Utilities goes out
Power from Rochelle Municipal Utilities went out 0.3 times last year across its Illinois territory, 1.5 hours in total - a little steadier than most of the country. That is 37% less outage time than the Illinois state average of 2.4 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
4.6 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 7,341 customers here, Outages at Rochelle Municipal Utilities run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
The source behind this number
Rochelle Municipal Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Illinois territory, serving 7,341 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Illinois as a whole, across every utility that filed: Illinois's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.