PUD No 1 of Benton County, WA
How often PUD No 1 of Benton County goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: PUD No 1 of Benton County's Washington customers went without power for only 36 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 91% less outage time than the Washington state average of 6.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at PUD No 1 of Benton County looks like
2.1 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for PUD No 1 of Benton County
Most PUD No 1 of Benton County customers keep power almost all year. Serving 57,780 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How PUD No 1 of Benton County's record was measured
PUD No 1 of Benton County filed these numbers itself, as a political-subdivision utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Washington territory, serving 57,780 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Washington is covered too: see Washington's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.