Wellsborough Electric Co, PA
Wellsborough Electric Co's outage record
Pennsylvania's grid here runs a bit rougher than most: 2.6 outages from Wellsborough Electric Co in the most recent year, 5.1 hours total. That is 33% less outage time than the Pennsylvania state average of 7.6 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here typically run short, about 2 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Wellsborough Electric Co
Serving 6,474 customers here, Wellsborough 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
Wellsborough Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Pennsylvania territory, serving 6,474 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Pennsylvania as a whole, across every utility that filed: Pennsylvania's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.