Monongahela Power Co, WV
Power reliability at Monongahela Power Co
This is one of the least reliable grids on file. West Virginia's Monongahela Power Co customers lost power 3.7 times in the most recent year, 20.8 hours in total. That is 23% more outage time than the West Virginia state average of 16.9 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
5.6 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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 391,428 customers here, Monongahela 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.
Where this number comes from
Monongahela Power Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire West Virginia territory, serving 391,428 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the West Virginia average instead of just this one utility? West Virginia's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.