Cedarburg Light & Water Comm, WI
Cedarburg Light & Water Comm's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Cedarburg Light & Water Comm's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 67 minutes across 0.4 separate outages last year. That is 71% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Cedarburg Light & Water Comm looks like
2.6 hours is the average length of a single outage here - past comfortable battery range, which is where a portable generator becomes the better buy. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Cedarburg Light & Water Comm customers keep power almost all year. Serving 7,023 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Cedarburg Light & Water Comm filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 7,023 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Wisconsin is covered too: see Wisconsin's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.