Two Rivers Water & Light, WI
How often Two Rivers Water & Light goes out
Two Rivers Water & Light customers in Wisconsin rarely lose power at all: 0.5 interruptions last year, adding up to just 67 minutes without electricity over the whole year. That is 71% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
Outage length, and what it means for a generator
A typical outage here runs about 2.2 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. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Two Rivers Water & Light customers keep power almost all year. Serving 6,193 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Two Rivers Water & Light filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 6,193 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.