South Carolina Public Service Authority, SC
Power reliability at South Carolina Public Service Authority
This is one of the steadier grids on file: South Carolina Public Service Authority's South Carolina customers went without power for only 43 minutes across 0.7 separate outages last year. That is 71% less outage time than the South Carolina state average of 2.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at South Carolina Public Service Authority looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 62 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for South Carolina Public Service Authority
Most South Carolina Public Service Authority customers keep power almost all year. Serving 215,561 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How South Carolina Public Service Authority's record was measured
South Carolina Public Service Authority filed these numbers itself, as a state-run utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire South Carolina territory, serving 215,561 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in South Carolina is covered too: see South Carolina's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.