Public Service Co of Colorado, CO
Power reliability at Public Service Co of Colorado
This grid runs rougher than most of the country: Public Service Co of Colorado's Colorado customers saw 1.6 interruptions and 6 hours without power in the most recent year on file. That is 32% more outage time than the Colorado state average of 4.6 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Public Service Co of Colorado looks like
Outages here average 3.8 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 1,542,120 customers here, This is not a borderline case - Public Service Co of Colorado'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 Public Service Co of Colorado files with federal regulators every year - serving 1,542,120 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Colorado as a whole, across every utility that filed: Colorado's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.