City of Garland, TX
How often City of Garland goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Garland's Texas customers went without power for only 13 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 94% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 66 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Garland customers need a generator
Most City of Garland customers keep power almost all year. Serving 77,632 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 Garland filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 77,632 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Texas is covered too: see Texas's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.