Public Service Co of Oklahoma, OK
How often Public Service Co of Oklahoma goes out
1.5 separate outages last year, 3.3 hours without power in total - that is Public Service Co of Oklahoma's record for Oklahoma, running ahead of the national median. That is 30% less outage time than the Oklahoma state average of 4.8 hours a year.
How long a single Public Service Co of Oklahoma outage runs
A typical outage here runs about 2.2 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for Public Service Co of Oklahoma
Serving 582,915 customers here, Public Service Co of Oklahoma 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
Public Service Co of Oklahoma filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Oklahoma territory, serving 582,915 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Oklahoma is covered too: see Oklahoma's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.