Decatur Utilities, AL
Power reliability at Decatur Utilities
Outages at Decatur Utilities are uncommon. Alabama customers on this grid saw 0.6 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 62 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 83% less outage time than the Alabama state average of 6.2 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 1.7 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Decatur Utilities customers need a generator
Serving 26,889 customers here, With a record this steady, Decatur Utilities customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Decatur Utilities's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Decatur Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 26,889 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Alabama is covered too: see Alabama's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.