Peninsula Light Company, WA
How often Peninsula Light Company goes out
Peninsula Light Company customers in Washington are among the worst-served in the country: 4.2 outages last year, 12.4 hours without power in total. That is 94% more outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
How long a single Peninsula Light Company outage runs
Outages here average 2.9 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Peninsula Light Company
Serving 35,588 customers here, With a record this bad, a backup generator at Peninsula Light Company is close to essential - check your options before the next outage, not during it.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a member-owned cooperative like Peninsula Light Company files with federal regulators every year - serving 35,588 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Washington as a whole, across every utility that filed: Washington's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.