City of Lebanon, IN
Power reliability at City of Lebanon
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Lebanon's Indiana customers went without power for only 19 minutes across 0.1 separate outages last year. That is 95% less outage time than the Indiana state average of 5.7 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Lebanon looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.8 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 9,599 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Lebanon 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 Lebanon files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,599 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Indiana as a whole, across every utility that filed: Indiana's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.