Greenville Utilities Comm, NC
Greenville Utilities Comm's outage record
Outages at Greenville Utilities Comm are uncommon. North Carolina customers on this grid saw 0.4 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 43 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 78% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Greenville Utilities Comm looks like
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. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Greenville Utilities Comm
Serving 77,455 customers here, With a record this steady, Greenville Utilities Comm customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Greenville Utilities Comm files with federal regulators every year - serving 77,455 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in North Carolina is covered too: see North Carolina's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.