City of Chicopee, MA
Power reliability at City of Chicopee
Outages at City of Chicopee are uncommon. Massachusetts customers on this grid saw 0.1 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 12 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 90% less outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Chicopee looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 1.9 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Chicopee
Serving 26,092 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Chicopee customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Chicopee files with federal regulators every year - serving 26,092 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Massachusetts average instead of just this one utility? Massachusetts's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.