City of Kinston, NC
How often City of Kinston goes out
City of Kinston customers in North Carolina rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 64 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 67% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Kinston looks like
2.2 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 Kinston customers need a generator
Most City of Kinston customers keep power almost all year. Serving 12,037 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Kinston's record was measured
City of Kinston filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 12,037 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in North Carolina is covered too: see North Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.