City of Gaffney, SC
Power reliability at City of Gaffney
City of Gaffney customers in South Carolina had 1.7 interruptions last year, 1.6 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 35% less outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Gaffney looks like
A single outage here averages 59 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do City of Gaffney customers need a generator
Serving 7,632 customers here, Nothing here says you should buy a generator today - City of Gaffney's record is a little better than most of the country, though it is worth checking your own past outages before ruling one out.
How City of Gaffney's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Gaffney files with federal regulators every year - serving 7,632 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See South Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: South Carolina's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.