City of Holyoke, MA
How often City of Holyoke goes out
Outages at City of Holyoke are uncommon. Massachusetts customers on this grid saw 0.5 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 37 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 70% less outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 80 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Holyoke customers keep power almost all year. Serving 17,671 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Holyoke filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Massachusetts territory, serving 17,671 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Massachusetts as a whole, across every utility that filed: Massachusetts's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.