City of Paducah, KY
City of Paducah's outage record
Outages at City of Paducah are uncommon. Kentucky customers on this grid saw 0.9 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 33 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 92% less outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
At an average of 38 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.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 22,185 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Paducah customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Paducah files with federal regulators every year - serving 22,185 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. Storm days are counted in - here is why.