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2015 Knox County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Knox County, ME went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 40K customer-hours (Maine average 2.8 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 15 Maine counties and 1026th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Knox County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 16, 2015 19:15 | December 16, 2015 19:45 | 30m | 2,504 | 1,229 |
| 2 | October 29, 2015 03:45 | October 29, 2015 19:30 | 15h 45m | 1,998 | 7,180 |
| 3 | February 1, 2015 14:00 | February 1, 2015 15:45 | 1h 45m | 1,028 | 1,511 |
| 4 | November 13, 2015 07:15 | November 13, 2015 14:45 | 7h 30m | 943 | 4,251 |
| 5 | April 15, 2015 22:30 | April 16, 2015 03:45 | 5h 15m | 926 | 4,084 |
| 6 | January 5, 2015 09:30 | January 5, 2015 15:30 | 6h | 879 | 2,994 |
| 7 | August 22, 2015 09:45 | August 22, 2015 12:15 | 2h 30m | 513 | 945 |
| 8 | January 5, 2015 17:15 | January 6, 2015 18:15 | 1d 1h | 427 | 880 |
| 9 | October 30, 2015 21:15 | October 31, 2015 01:30 | 4h 15m | 392 | 1,395 |
| 10 | September 30, 2015 16:30 | October 1, 2015 02:45 | 10h 15m | 360 | 842 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 29 reached 100+ customers, 3 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Knox County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.57 | 2.9 hrs | 1.57 |
| Fox Islands Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Matinicus Plantation Elec Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Maine's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,343 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Knox County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Knox County, ME annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/maine/knox-county