City of Mesa, AZ
Power reliability at City of Mesa
City of Mesa customers in Arizona rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 52 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 30% less outage time than the Arizona state average of 74 minutes a year.
What a typical outage at City of Mesa looks like
A single outage here averages 1.7 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do City of Mesa customers need a generator
Most City of Mesa customers keep power almost all year. Serving 18,192 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Mesa's record was measured
City of Mesa filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Arizona territory, serving 18,192 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Arizona average instead of just this one utility? Arizona's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.