City of Holland, MI
Power reliability at City of Holland
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Holland's Michigan customers went without power for only 71 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 89% less outage time than the Michigan state average of 11.2 hours a year.
How long a single City of Holland outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 2.9 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 32,200 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Holland customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Holland files with federal regulators every year - serving 32,200 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Michigan as a whole, across every utility that filed: Michigan's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.