City of Sturgeon Bay, WI
Power reliability at City of Sturgeon Bay
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Sturgeon Bay's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 12 minutes across 0.3 separate outages last year. That is 95% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single City of Sturgeon Bay outage runs
At an average of 45 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
Do City of Sturgeon Bay customers need a generator
Serving 9,725 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Sturgeon Bay customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
The source behind this number
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Sturgeon Bay files with federal regulators every year - serving 9,725 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Every other utility in Wisconsin is covered too: see Wisconsin's full record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.