City of Albemarle, NC
City of Albemarle's outage record
Outages at City of Albemarle are uncommon. North Carolina customers on this grid saw 0.1 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 14 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 93% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Albemarle looks like
Outages here average 3.9 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 12,505 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Albemarle customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Albemarle's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Albemarle files with federal regulators every year - serving 12,505 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.