City of Springville, UT
How often City of Springville goes out
City of Springville customers in Utah rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 46 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 60% less outage time than the Utah state average of 1.9 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 1.7 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Springville
Serving 13,469 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Springville customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Springville's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Springville files with federal regulators every year - serving 13,469 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Utah is covered too: see Utah's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.