City of Longmont, CO
Power reliability at City of Longmont
City of Longmont customers in Colorado rarely lose power at all: 0.6 interruptions last year, adding up to just 40 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 85% less outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
How long a single City of Longmont outage runs
At an average of 71 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 49,400 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Longmont 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 Longmont files with federal regulators every year - serving 49,400 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Colorado is covered too: see Colorado's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.