Bolivar Energy Authority, TN
Power reliability at Bolivar Energy Authority
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Bolivar Energy Authority's Tennessee customers saw 2.4 interruptions and 9.4 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 145% more outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Bolivar Energy Authority looks like
3.9 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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 11,441 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Bolivar Energy Authority's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Bolivar Energy Authority files with federal regulators every year - serving 11,441 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.