City of San Antonio, TX
Power reliability at City of San Antonio
City of San Antonio customers in Texas had 1.5 interruptions last year, 1.8 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 51% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 72 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of San Antonio
Serving 940,662 customers here, Outages at City of San Antonio run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
Where this number comes from
City of San Antonio filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Texas territory, serving 940,662 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.