Citizens Electric Co, PA
How often Citizens Electric Co goes out
Citizens Electric Co customers in Pennsylvania rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 56 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 88% less outage time than the Pennsylvania state average of 7.6 hours a year.
How long a single Citizens Electric Co outage runs
At an average of 1.8 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Citizens Electric Co customers need a generator
Most Citizens Electric Co customers keep power almost all year. Serving 7,241 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Citizens Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Pennsylvania territory, serving 7,241 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Pennsylvania as a whole, across every utility that filed: Pennsylvania's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.