Oconomowoc Utilities, WI
Oconomowoc Utilities's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Oconomowoc Utilities's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 11 minutes across 0.2 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 Oconomowoc Utilities outage runs
A single outage here averages 63 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 11,639 customers here, With a record this steady, Oconomowoc Utilities customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like Oconomowoc Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 11,639 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Wisconsin average instead of just this one utility? Wisconsin's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.