Virginia Tech Electric Service, VA
Virginia Tech Electric Service's outage record
Virginia Tech Electric Service customers in Virginia rarely lose power at all: 0.2 interruptions last year, adding up to just 27 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 94% less outage time than the Virginia state average of 7.7 hours a year.
How long a single Virginia Tech Electric Service outage runs
2.6 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do Virginia Tech Electric Service customers need a generator
Most Virginia Tech Electric Service customers keep power almost all year. Serving 6,858 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Virginia Tech Electric Service filed these numbers itself, as a state-run utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Virginia territory, serving 6,858 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Virginia as a whole, across every utility that filed: Virginia's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.