Insights

Grid intelligence, territory planning, and data analysis for solar installers.

California power outage data

20,711 outage events across 58 California counties in 30 days. County-level breakdown, utility cause reporting, and what it means for solar.

Are power outages getting worse?

What the outage data actually shows — seasonal patterns, peak months, time-of-day trends, and what's causing the most grid failures in 2026.

Generator and battery demand hotspots

Which counties and states have the highest demand for whole-home generators and battery storage — based on outage frequency, duration, and housing data.

Grid Reliability by State

A ZIP-level breakdown of grid disturbances across all 50 states — and what it means for solar installers picking territories.

Power outage data for March 2026

Over 210,000 power outage events across 46 states in March 2026. County-level breakdown of where outages hit hardest, what caused them, and restoration times.

Pitching solar after a power outage

How to pitch solar and battery backup to homeowners after a power outage — what to say, what data to bring, and how to beat generator companies.

How to pick a solar sales territory

The counties, states, and ZIP-level data points that separate good solar territories from dead ones — based on 30 days of grid data.

Weird things that cause outages

Squirrels, mylar balloons, hawks on fire, and cars into poles — the strangest real causes of power outages in utility data.

Why utilities don't explain outages

83% of U.S. power outage events have no public cause. Some utilities explain every event. Others explain none. Here's the data.