City of Bryan, TX
City of Bryan's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Bryan's Texas customers went without power for only 44 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 81% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
How long a single City of Bryan outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 72,676 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Bryan customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Bryan's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Bryan files with federal regulators every year - serving 72,676 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Texas is covered too: see Texas's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.