City of College Station, TX
City of College Station's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of College Station's Texas customers went without power for only 23 minutes across 0.6 separate outages last year. That is 90% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of College Station looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 39 minutes 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.
Do City of College Station customers need a generator
Serving 45,893 customers here, With a record this steady, City of College Station customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of College Station's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of College Station files with federal regulators every year - serving 45,893 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Texas average instead of just this one utility? Texas's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.