Portland General Electric Co, OR
Power reliability at Portland General Electric Co
Oregon's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 0.9 outages from Portland General Electric Co in the most recent year, 4.6 hours total. That is 7% more outage time than the Oregon state average of 4.3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
5.1 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Portland General Electric Co customers need a generator
Serving 954,189 customers here, Portland General Electric Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
The source behind this number
Portland General Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Oregon territory, serving 954,189 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Oregon as a whole, across every utility that filed: Oregon's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.