Town of Shrewsbury, MA
How often Town of Shrewsbury goes out
Town of Shrewsbury customers in Massachusetts are among the worst-served in the country: 2.6 outages last year, 13.8 hours without power in total. That is 584% more outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Town of Shrewsbury looks like
5.4 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Town of Shrewsbury
Serving 16,851 customers here, Town of Shrewsbury is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
How Town of Shrewsbury's record was measured
Town of Shrewsbury filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Massachusetts territory, serving 16,851 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Massachusetts average instead of just this one utility? Massachusetts's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.