City of Springfield, OR
How often City of Springfield goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Springfield's Oregon customers went without power for only 40 minutes across 0.8 separate outages last year. That is 84% less outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Springfield looks like
A single outage here averages 50 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Springfield customers need a generator
Serving 33,482 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Springfield customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Springfield files with federal regulators every year - serving 33,482 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Oregon is covered too: see Oregon's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.