Henderson City Utility Comm, KY
Power reliability at Henderson City Utility Comm
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Henderson City Utility Comm's Kentucky customers went without power for only 23 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 94% 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 54 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Henderson City Utility Comm customers need a generator
Serving 12,316 customers here, With a record this steady, Henderson City Utility Comm 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 Henderson City Utility Comm files with federal regulators every year - serving 12,316 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Kentucky is covered too: see Kentucky's full record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.