Kentucky Power Co, KY
Power reliability at Kentucky Power Co
Kentucky Power Co customers in Kentucky are among the worst-served in the country: 2.6 outages last year, 15.2 hours without power in total. That is 123% more outage time than the Kentucky state average of 6.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Kentucky Power Co looks like
5.8 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Kentucky Power Co
Serving 160,774 customers here, Kentucky Power Co is among the least reliable grids in the country on file. You should get a generator here; going without one means betting against the grid's own filed history.
The source behind this number
Kentucky Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Kentucky territory, serving 160,774 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Kentucky average instead of just this one utility? Kentucky's statewide record is here. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.