Borough of Chambersburg, PA
Borough of Chambersburg's outage record
Borough of Chambersburg customers in Pennsylvania rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 39 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 92% less outage time than the Pennsylvania state average of 7.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 1.6 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Borough of Chambersburg customers need a generator
Most Borough of Chambersburg customers keep power almost all year. Serving 11,890 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Borough of Chambersburg filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Pennsylvania territory, serving 11,890 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Pennsylvania as a whole, across every utility that filed: Pennsylvania's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.