Town of Massena, NY
Power reliability at Town of Massena
Outages at Town of Massena are uncommon. New York customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 21 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 82% less outage time than the New York state average of 1.9 hours a year.
How long a single Town of Massena outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 66 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Town of Massena customers need a generator
Serving 9,302 customers here, With a record this steady, Town of Massena 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 Town of Massena files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,302 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See New York as a whole, across every utility that filed: New York's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.