City of Colton, CA
How often City of Colton goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Colton's California customers went without power for only 66 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 81% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Colton looks like
Outages here average 2.6 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Colton
Most City of Colton customers keep power almost all year. Serving 19,828 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Colton's record was measured
City of Colton filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 19,828 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the California average instead of just this one utility? California's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.