City of Milan, TN
Power reliability at City of Milan
City of Milan customers in Tennessee are among the worst-served in the country: 1.2 outages last year, 208.9 hours without power in total. That is 5351% more outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single City of Milan outage runs
Outages here average 174.1 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 8,535 customers here, City of Milan is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
Where this number comes from
City of Milan filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Tennessee territory, serving 8,535 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Tennessee average instead of just this one utility? Tennessee's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.