Fort Pierce Utilities Authority, FL
Power reliability at Fort Pierce Utilities Authority
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Fort Pierce Utilities Authority's Florida customers went without power for only 59 minutes across 1.2 separate outages last year. That is 15% less outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
How long a single Fort Pierce Utilities Authority outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 52 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Fort Pierce Utilities Authority customers need a generator
Most Fort Pierce Utilities Authority customers keep power almost all year. Serving 30,089 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Fort Pierce Utilities Authority's record was measured
Fort Pierce Utilities Authority filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Florida territory, serving 30,089 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Florida as a whole, across every utility that filed: Florida's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.