City of Santa Clara, CA
Power reliability at City of Santa Clara
City of Santa Clara customers in California rarely lose power at all: 0.6 interruptions last year, adding up to just 69 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 80% less outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Santa Clara looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 1.8 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do City of Santa Clara customers need a generator
Most City of Santa Clara customers keep power almost all year. Serving 62,242 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How City of Santa Clara's record was measured
City of Santa Clara filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 62,242 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in California is covered too: see California's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.