City of Roseville, CA
How often City of Roseville goes out
City of Roseville customers in California rarely lose power at all: 0.1 interruptions last year, adding up to just 13 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 96% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Roseville looks like
Outages here average 2.2 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do City of Roseville customers need a generator
Most City of Roseville customers keep power almost all year. Serving 72,390 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Roseville filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 72,390 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in California is covered too: see California's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.