City of Bartow, FL
City of Bartow's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Bartow's Florida customers went without power for only 25 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 64% less outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
What a typical outage at City of Bartow looks like
A single outage here averages 81 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Bartow
Most City of Bartow customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,620 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Bartow's record was measured
City of Bartow filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Florida territory, serving 13,620 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Florida is covered too: see Florida's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.