Tucson Electric Power Co, AZ
Tucson Electric Power Co's outage record
Tucson Electric Power Co customers in Arizona rarely lose power at all: 0.6 interruptions last year, adding up to just 42 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 44% less outage time than the Arizona state average of 74 minutes a year.
How long a single Tucson Electric Power Co outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 65 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 Tucson Electric Power Co
Serving 460,504 customers here, With a record this steady, Tucson Electric Power Co customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Tucson Electric Power Co files with federal regulators every year - serving 460,504 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Arizona as a whole, across every utility that filed: Arizona's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.