City of Stoughton, WI
How often City of Stoughton goes out
City of Stoughton customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.3 interruptions last year, adding up to just 34 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 85% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A single outage here averages 1.7 hours. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do City of Stoughton customers need a generator
Most City of Stoughton customers keep power almost all year. Serving 9,475 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 Stoughton filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 9,475 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.