Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, CA
How often Los Angeles Department of Water & Power goes out
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Los Angeles Department of Water & Power's California customers saw 0.8 interruptions and 6.8 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 18% more outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Los Angeles Department of Water & Power looks like
Outages here average 8.7 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Los Angeles Department of Water & Power customers need a generator
Serving 1,571,400 customers here, Outages at Los Angeles Department of Water & Power run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
Where this number comes from
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire California territory, serving 1,571,400 customers here, not a single street or outage. See California as a whole, across every utility that filed: California's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.