Madison Gas & Electric Co, WI
Power reliability at Madison Gas & Electric Co
Madison Gas & Electric Co customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.4 interruptions last year, adding up to just 49 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 79% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
Outages here average 2.1 hours before power returns, a moderate length where a portable generator earns its keep over battery storage alone. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
Do Madison Gas & Electric Co customers need a generator
Serving 170,341 customers here, With a record this steady, Madison Gas & Electric Co customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Madison Gas & Electric Co's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Madison Gas & Electric Co files with federal regulators every year - serving 170,341 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. Storm days are counted in - here is why.