City of Bowling Green, OH
How often City of Bowling Green goes out
City of Bowling Green customers in Ohio had 1.4 interruptions last year, 2.3 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 33% less outage time than the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Bowling Green looks like
A single outage here averages 1.6 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 15,008 customers here, Outages at City of Bowling Green run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
The source behind this number
City of Bowling Green filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 15,008 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Ohio average instead of just this one utility? Ohio's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.