City of Glendale, CA
How often City of Glendale goes out
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: City of Glendale's California customers saw 1.6 interruptions and 9.8 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 70% more outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 6 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Glendale
Serving 95,127 customers here, This is not a borderline case - City of Glendale's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Glendale files with federal regulators every year - serving 95,127 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in California is covered too: see California's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.