Town of Huntersville, NC
Power reliability at Town of Huntersville
Town of Huntersville customers in North Carolina rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 24 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 88% less outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 1.8 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Town of Huntersville
Most Town of Huntersville customers keep power almost all year. Serving 10,027 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Town of Huntersville's record was measured
Town of Huntersville filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 10,027 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.