The Potomac Edison Company, WV
Power reliability at The Potomac Edison Company
The Potomac Edison Company customers in West Virginia lost power 2 times last year, 7.3 hours total - well above the national norm for outage time. That is 57% less outage time than the West Virginia state average of 16.9 hours a year.
What a typical outage at The Potomac Edison Company looks like
A single outage here runs long, about 3.7 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.
Do The Potomac Edison Company customers need a generator
Serving 155,497 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.
The source behind this number
The Potomac Edison Company filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire West Virginia territory, serving 155,497 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. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.