City of Concord, NC
City of Concord's outage record
Outages at City of Concord are uncommon. North Carolina customers on this grid saw 0.6 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 65 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 67% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
How long a single City of Concord outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours 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.
The generator question for City of Concord
Most City of Concord customers keep power almost all year. Serving 34,517 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Concord filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 34,517 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in North Carolina is covered too: see North Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.