Virginia Electric & Power Co, NC
How often Virginia Electric & Power Co goes out
North Carolina's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 1.5 outages from Virginia Electric & Power Co in the most recent year, 4.8 hours total. That is 46% more outage time than the North Carolina state average of 3.3 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Virginia Electric & Power Co looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 3.2 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Virginia Electric & Power Co
Serving 133,095 customers here, Virginia Electric & Power Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
How Virginia Electric & Power Co's record was measured
Virginia Electric & Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire North Carolina territory, serving 133,095 customers here, not a single street or outage. See North Carolina as a whole, across every utility that filed: North Carolina's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.