Idaho Power Co, OR
Power reliability at Idaho Power Co
1.5 separate outages last year, 4.5 hours without power in total - that is Idaho Power Co's record for Oregon, running ahead of the national median. That is 7% more outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
How long a single Idaho Power Co outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 3.1 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 20,304 customers here, Idaho Power Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Idaho Power Co's record was measured
Idaho Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Oregon territory, serving 20,304 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Oregon as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oregon's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.