Town of Wellesley, MA
How often Town of Wellesley goes out
Outages at Town of Wellesley are uncommon. Massachusetts customers on this grid saw 0.2 interruptions in the most recent year on file, 41 minutes total - well under the national median. That is 66% less outage time than the Massachusetts state average of 2 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Town of Wellesley looks like
A typical outage here runs about 2.8 hours - long enough that a battery alone usually will not see you through, but short enough that a fuel-powered portable generator is a reasonable match. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
The generator question for Town of Wellesley
Most Town of Wellesley customers keep power almost all year. Serving 10,568 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
How Town of Wellesley's record was measured
Town of Wellesley filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Massachusetts territory, serving 10,568 customers here, not a single street or outage. Every other utility in Massachusetts is covered too: see Massachusetts's full record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.