Liberty Utilities, CA
Liberty Utilities's outage record
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Liberty Utilities's California customers saw 3.1 interruptions and 10.2 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 78% more outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
How long a single Liberty Utilities outage runs
3.3 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 48,925 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Liberty Utilities's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Liberty Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 48,925 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in California is covered too: see California's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.