Shawano Municipal Utilities, WI
How often Shawano Municipal Utilities goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Shawano Municipal Utilities's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 49 minutes across 0.6 separate outages last year. That is 79% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Shawano Municipal Utilities looks like
At an average of 79 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Shawano Municipal Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 6,100 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Shawano Municipal Utilities's record was measured
Shawano Municipal Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 6,100 customers here, not a single street or outage. Want the Wisconsin average instead of just this one utility? Wisconsin's statewide record is here. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.