Gainesville Regional Utilities, FL
Gainesville Regional Utilities's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Gainesville Regional Utilities's Florida customers went without power for only 37 minutes across 0.8 separate outages last year. That is 47% less outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
How long a single Gainesville Regional Utilities outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 48 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.
The generator question for Gainesville Regional Utilities
Serving 101,948 customers here, With a record this steady, Gainesville Regional 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 Gainesville Regional Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 101,948 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Florida average instead of just this one utility? Florida's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.