City of Eugene, OR
How often City of Eugene goes out
Outages at City of Eugene are uncommon. Oregon customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 49 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 81% less outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
2.9 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Eugene customers need a generator
Serving 100,777 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Eugene customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Eugene files with federal regulators every year - serving 100,777 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Oregon as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oregon's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.