City of Milford, DE
How often City of Milford goes out
Outages at City of Milford are uncommon. Delaware customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 24 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 75% less outage time than the Delaware state average of 1.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 1.6 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 Milford customers need a generator
Serving 9,096 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Milford customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Milford's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Milford files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,096 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Delaware as a whole, across every utility that filed: Delaware's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.