City of Piqua, OH
How often City of Piqua goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Piqua's Ohio customers went without power for only 18 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 91% less outage time than the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Piqua looks like
A single outage here averages 58 minutes. 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
Most City of Piqua customers keep power almost all year. Serving 10,899 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
City of Piqua filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 10,899 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Ohio average instead of just this one utility? Ohio's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.