Foley Board of Utilities, AL
Foley Board of Utilities's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Foley Board of Utilities's Alabama customers went without power for only 70 minutes across 1.1 separate outages last year. That is 81% less outage time than the Alabama state average of 6.2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Foley Board of Utilities looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 66 minutes 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.
Do Foley Board of Utilities customers need a generator
Serving 59,442 customers here, With a record this steady, Foley Board of Utilities 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 Foley Board of Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 59,442 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.