Provo City Corp, UT
Power reliability at Provo City Corp
Outages at Provo City Corp are uncommon. Utah customers on this grid saw 0.7 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 53 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 54% less outage time than the Utah state average of 1.9 hours a year.
How long a single Provo City Corp outage runs
A single outage here averages 82 minutes. 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 40,813 customers here, With a record this steady, Provo City Corp customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Provo City Corp files with federal regulators every year - serving 40,813 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Utah as a whole, across every utility that filed: Utah's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.