The Potomac Edison Company, MD
Power reliability at The Potomac Edison Company
The Potomac Edison Company customers in Maryland lost power 1.3 times last year, 6.7 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 117% more outage time than the Maryland state average of 3.1 hours a year.
How long a single The Potomac Edison Company outage runs
A single outage here runs long, about 5.1 hours on average - past what a battery or portable unit comfortably covers, which is where a standby generator with its own fuel line matters. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 288,257 customers here, Outages at The Potomac Edison Company run well above the national norm. You should get a backup generator here - it is a sound investment, not a luxury.
How The Potomac Edison Company's record was measured
The Potomac Edison Company filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Maryland territory, serving 288,257 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Maryland as a whole, across every utility that filed: Maryland's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.