Alaska Power and Telephone Co, AK
How often Alaska Power and Telephone Co goes out
Alaska Power and Telephone Co customers in Alaska rarely lose power at all: 8.8 interruptions last year, adding up to just 8 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 98% less outage time than the Alaska state average of 9 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 1 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Alaska Power and Telephone Co customers need a generator
Most Alaska Power and Telephone Co customers keep power almost all year. Serving 8,553 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Alaska Power and Telephone Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Alaska territory, serving 8,553 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Alaska average instead of just this one utility? Alaska's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.