Alameda Municipal Power, CA
How often Alameda Municipal Power goes out
Alameda Municipal Power customers in California rarely lose power at all: 0.1 interruptions last year, adding up to just 9 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 97% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
How long a single Alameda Municipal Power outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.8 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Alameda Municipal Power customers need a generator
Serving 37,322 customers here, With a record this steady, Alameda Municipal Power customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Alameda Municipal Power files with federal regulators every year - serving 37,322 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See California as a whole, across every utility that filed: California's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.