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2015 Piscataquis County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Piscataquis County, ME went without power for an average of 20.9 hours, a total of 213K customer-hours (Maine average 2.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 15 Maine counties and 109th 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 Piscataquis 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 30, 2015 18:30 | August 30, 2015 22:15 | 3h 45m | 5,310 | 13K |
| 2 | September 29, 2015 19:15 | October 2, 2015 08:15 | 2d 13h | 3,505 | 41K |
| 3 | January 29, 2015 12:00 | January 29, 2015 16:30 | 4h 30m | 3,386 | 12K |
| 4 | August 24, 2015 01:15 | August 24, 2015 07:00 | 5h 45m | 2,333 | 13K |
| 5 | May 28, 2015 17:45 | May 29, 2015 07:00 | 13h 15m | 1,839 | 9,293 |
| 6 | November 22, 2015 22:00 | November 22, 2015 23:45 | 1h 45m | 1,664 | 2,501 |
| 7 | December 15, 2015 15:15 | December 16, 2015 18:30 | 1d 3h | 1,647 | 4,034 |
| 8 | August 11, 2015 19:15 | August 11, 2015 23:45 | 4h 30m | 1,608 | 944 |
| 9 | November 14, 2015 13:00 | November 14, 2015 19:00 | 6h | 1,530 | 1,332 |
| 10 | November 4, 2015 23:15 | November 5, 2015 02:15 | 3h | 1,298 | 3,894 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 115 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Piscataquis 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 |
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 ÷ 10,203 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. Piscataquis County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Piscataquis 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/piscataquis-county