City of Gallatin, TN
How often City of Gallatin goes out
Outages at City of Gallatin are uncommon. Tennessee customers on this grid saw 0.5 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 49 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 79% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 1.6 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Gallatin
Serving 27,252 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Gallatin customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Gallatin files with federal regulators every year - serving 27,252 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Tennessee as a whole, across every utility that filed: Tennessee's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.