PacifiCorp, CA
Power reliability at PacifiCorp
8.1 hours without power across 5.3 outages last year - PacifiCorp's California customers are well past the typical US utility's outage time. That is 41% more outage time than the California state average of 5.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at PacifiCorp looks like
A single outage here averages 1.5 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 47,309 customers here, This is not a borderline case - PacifiCorp's outage record alone is reason enough to get a backup generator before the next one hits.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like PacifiCorp files with federal regulators every year - serving 47,309 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the California average instead of just this one utility? California's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.