Slinger Utilities, WI
Slinger Utilities's outage record
Outages at Slinger Utilities are uncommon. Wisconsin customers on this grid saw 0 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 0 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 100% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Slinger Utilities looks like
At an average of 29 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Slinger Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 2,941 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
The source behind this number
Slinger Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 2,941 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Wisconsin is covered too: see Wisconsin's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.