Waupun Utilities, WI
How often Waupun Utilities goes out
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Waupun Utilities's Wisconsin customers went without power for only 4 minutes across 0.1 separate outages last year. That is 98% less outage time than the Wisconsin state average of 3.8 hours a year.
How long a single Waupun Utilities outage runs
A single outage here averages 62 minutes. That is squarely in battery-power-station range; a fuel generator is overkill for most of these. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Most Waupun Utilities customers keep power almost all year. Serving 4,533 customers here, You probably do not need a generator unless you already have another reason to want one.
Where this number comes from
Waupun Utilities filed these numbers itself, as a municipally-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire Wisconsin territory, serving 4,533 customers here, not a single street or outage. See Wisconsin as a whole, across every utility that filed: Wisconsin's outage record. The full scoring method lives in the methodology guide.