City of Bowling Green, KY
How often City of Bowling Green goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Bowling Green's Kentucky customers went without power for only 46 minutes across 0.5 separate outages last year. That is 89% less outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Bowling Green looks like
At an average of 87 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for City of Bowling Green
Serving 31,027 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Bowling Green customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Bowling Green files with federal regulators every year - serving 31,027 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Kentucky as a whole, across every utility that filed: Kentucky's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.