City of Greeneville, TN
Power reliability at City of Greeneville
Tennessee's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 1.9 outages from City of Greeneville in the most recent year, 4 hours total. That is close to the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single City of Greeneville outage runs
2.1 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Greeneville customers need a generator
Serving 40,975 customers here, Given how often City of Greeneville goes out, you should consider a backup generator rather than treat it as optional.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Greeneville files with federal regulators every year - serving 40,975 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.