Orlando Utilities Comm, FL
Orlando Utilities Comm's outage record
Orlando Utilities Comm customers in Florida rarely lose power at all: 0.6 interruptions last year, adding up to just 37 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 47% less outage time than the Florida state average of 70 minutes a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 65 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Orlando Utilities Comm customers need a generator
Most Orlando Utilities Comm customers keep power almost all year. Serving 291,193 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Orlando Utilities Comm's record was measured
Orlando Utilities Comm filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Florida territory, serving 291,193 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Florida as a whole, across every utility that filed: Florida's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.