City of Westerville, OH
City of Westerville's outage record
Outages at City of Westerville are uncommon. Ohio customers on this grid saw 0.3 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 25 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 88% less outage time than the Ohio state average of 3.4 hours a year.
What a typical outage at City of Westerville looks like
A single outage here averages 85 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Westerville customers keep power almost all year. Serving 18,095 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Westerville filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Ohio territory, serving 18,095 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Ohio is covered too: see Ohio's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.