City of Cleveland, OH
Power reliability at City of Cleveland
Ohio's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 0.7 outages from City of Cleveland in the most recent year, 3.7 hours total. That is 9% more outage time than the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Cleveland looks like
Outages here average 5.4 hours before power returns. At that length, continuous fuel supply matters more than stored capacity, which favors a standby generator over anything battery-based. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 73,615 customers here, City of Cleveland customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
City of Cleveland filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 73,615 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Ohio as a whole, across every utility that filed: Ohio's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.