City of Menasha, WI
Power reliability at City of Menasha
City of Menasha customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.1 interruptions last year, adding up to just 22 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 91% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
5.6 hours is this grid's average outage length - long enough that a standby generator, not a portable or battery unit, is the more realistic fit. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for City of Menasha
Most City of Menasha customers keep power almost all year. Serving 9,526 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
City of Menasha filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 9,526 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Wisconsin is covered too: see Wisconsin's full record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.