Albany Utility Board, GA
Power reliability at Albany Utility Board
Georgia's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 1.9 outages from Albany Utility Board in the most recent year, 3.3 hours total. That is 26% less outage time than the Georgia state average of 4.5 hours a year.
How long a single Albany Utility Board outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Albany Utility Board
Serving 32,159 customers here, Albany Utility Board customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Albany Utility Board filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Georgia territory, serving 32,159 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Georgia as a whole, across every utility that filed: Georgia's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.