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2015 Penobscot County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Penobscot County, ME went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 329K customer-hours (Maine average 2.8 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 15 Maine counties and 755th 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 Penobscot 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 | August 22, 2015 03:15 | August 22, 2015 14:30 | 11h 15m | 5,342 | 3,290 |
| 2 | September 10, 2015 12:30 | September 10, 2015 13:15 | 45m | 4,850 | 3,638 |
| 3 | September 30, 2015 01:30 | October 2, 2015 02:00 | 2d | 4,342 | 60K |
| 4 | October 29, 2015 05:45 | October 30, 2015 07:30 | 1d 1h | 3,542 | 17K |
| 5 | May 28, 2015 18:30 | May 30, 2015 00:30 | 1d 6h | 3,443 | 17K |
| 6 | November 12, 2015 14:00 | November 12, 2015 19:45 | 5h 45m | 3,217 | 13K |
| 7 | August 5, 2015 17:30 | August 6, 2015 08:00 | 14h 30m | 3,131 | 14K |
| 8 | October 30, 2015 11:00 | October 30, 2015 18:30 | 7h 30m | 2,870 | 4,437 |
| 9 | August 3, 2015 10:15 | August 4, 2015 03:30 | 17h 15m | 2,613 | 12K |
| 10 | February 14, 2015 13:00 | February 14, 2015 18:15 | 5h 15m | 2,595 | 6,617 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 135 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Penobscot 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 |
| Versant Power | 2015 | 5.8 hrs | 2.58 | 4.7 hrs | 2.34 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2015 | 9.2 hrs | 7.73 | 8.5 hrs | 7.39 |
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 ÷ 88,128 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. Penobscot County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Penobscot 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/penobscot-county