City of Richland Center, WI
Power reliability at City of Richland Center
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Richland Center's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 28 minutes across 0.2 separate outages last year. That is 88% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single City of Richland Center outage runs
Outages here average 2.6 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Most City of Richland Center customers keep power almost all year. Serving 2,941 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 Richland Center filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 2,941 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.