City of Newark, DE
How often City of Newark goes out
Outages at City of Newark are uncommon. Delaware customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 35 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 64% less outage time than the Delaware state average of 1.6 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Newark looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do City of Newark customers need a generator
Most City of Newark customers keep power almost all year. Serving 13,486 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Newark's record was measured
City of Newark filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Delaware territory, serving 13,486 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Delaware as a whole, across every utility that filed: Delaware's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.