Watertown Municipal Utilities, SD
Watertown Municipal Utilities's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Watertown Municipal Utilities's South Dakota customers went without power for only 4 minutes across 0.1 separate outages last year. That is 98% less outage time than the South Dakota state average of 4.5 hours a year.
What a typical outage at Watertown Municipal Utilities looks like
Outages here typically run short, about 35 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. More on that split in how often versus how long an outage runs.
The generator question for Watertown Municipal Utilities
Serving 14,608 customers here, With a record this steady, Watertown Municipal 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 Watertown Municipal Utilities files with federal regulators every year - serving 14,608 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the South Dakota average instead of just this one utility? South Dakota's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.