City of Monroe, NC
How often City of Monroe goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Monroe's North Carolina customers went without power for only 31 minutes across 0.5 separate outages last year. That is 84% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Monroe looks like
A single outage here averages 59 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Monroe
Most City of Monroe customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,960 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Monroe's record was measured
City of Monroe filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 13,960 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.