About CheckYourGrid
CheckYourGrid turns Connecticut's public grid-reliability records into plain answers about your town: how often the power goes out, how long it takes to come back, and what your risk looks like when a storm is coming.
Who makes this
CheckYourGrid is built by Alexander Snyder, the maker of CheckYourTap, which does the same job for Connecticut drinking water. Same principle both places: public data exists about the things your household depends on, and you should be able to read it.
Our relationship with Valiant Energy Solutions, disclosed
CheckYourGrid is built in partnership with Valiant Energy Solutions, a Connecticut home-services company that installs standby generators. That partnership funds this site. It does not touch the numbers: every statistic is generated from the public sources cited next to it, our methodology is published in full, and our data is downloadable so anyone can check us. When a methodology change makes the grid look better, we publish that too.
Where the data comes from
Federal reliability filings (EIA-861), U.S. Department of Energy outage records, Connecticut regulator reports, National Weather Service and NOAA storm data, and the U.S. Census. Sources are named on every page that uses them, with dates and sample sizes. See the methodology and the open dataset.