Bristol Virginia Utilities, VA
Power reliability at Bristol Virginia Utilities
Outages at Bristol Virginia Utilities are uncommon. Virginia customers on this grid saw 0.2 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 25 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 95% less outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Bristol Virginia Utilities outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.7 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Bristol Virginia Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 15,989 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Bristol Virginia Utilities's record was measured
Bristol Virginia Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Virginia territory, serving 15,989 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Virginia average instead of just this one utility? Virginia's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.