Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC, SC
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC's outage record
South Carolina's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 1.3 outages from Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC in the most recent year, 3.7 hours total. That is 45% more outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
How long a single Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC outage runs
2.9 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC
Serving 738,436 customers here, Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC's record was measured
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 738,436 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in South Carolina is covered too: see South Carolina's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.