Nashville Electric Service, TN
Nashville Electric Service's outage record
Nashville Electric Service customers in Tennessee rarely lose power at all: 0 interruptions last year, adding up to just 0 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 100% less outage time than the Tennessee state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
This utility did not file enough detail to say how long a typical outage runs here, so there is no basis yet for which kind of backup fits best. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 461,654 customers here, With a record this steady, Nashville Electric Service customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Nashville Electric Service's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Nashville Electric Service files with federal regulators every year - serving 461,654 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Tennessee is covered too: see Tennessee's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.