Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co, OK
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co's outage record
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co customers in Oklahoma had 1.7 interruptions last year, 3.9 hours without power in total - above the typical US utility's outage time by about 1.4×. That is 17% less outage time than the Oklahoma state average of 4.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co looks like
2.3 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co customers need a generator
Serving 834,501 customers here, Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co customers lose more power than most of the country sees, so a generator is worth getting rather than an overreaction.
Where this number comes from
Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Oklahoma territory, serving 834,501 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Oklahoma is covered too: see Oklahoma's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.