Town of Reading, MA
Power reliability at Town of Reading
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Town of Reading's Massachusetts customers went without power for only 50 minutes across 0.5 separate outages last year. That is 59% less outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Town of Reading looks like
At an average of 1.7 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Town of Reading customers need a generator
Most Town of Reading customers keep power almost all year. Serving 30,886 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Town of Reading's record was measured
Town of Reading filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Massachusetts territory, serving 30,886 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Massachusetts is covered too: see Massachusetts's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.