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2015 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 74K customer-hours (Maine average 2.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 15 Maine counties and 581st 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 Washington 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 11, 2015 16:15 | December 11, 2015 16:45 | 30m | 7,802 | 3,470 |
| 2 | April 3, 2015 08:00 | April 3, 2015 11:00 | 3h | 2,698 | 6,479 |
| 3 | September 30, 2015 20:00 | October 1, 2015 20:00 | 1d | 2,660 | 9,220 |
| 4 | February 21, 2015 10:00 | February 21, 2015 20:00 | 10h | 1,945 | 11K |
| 5 | March 3, 2015 12:15 | March 3, 2015 12:30 | 15m | 1,939 | 485 |
| 6 | January 5, 2015 15:45 | January 6, 2015 01:45 | 10h | 1,906 | 5,095 |
| 7 | October 29, 2015 08:30 | October 30, 2015 18:00 | 1d 9h | 1,798 | 3,796 |
| 8 | April 21, 2015 19:00 | April 22, 2015 06:00 | 11h | 1,707 | 7,583 |
| 9 | January 28, 2015 16:15 | January 28, 2015 17:30 | 1h 15m | 1,645 | 1,625 |
| 10 | September 12, 2015 22:30 | September 12, 2015 23:45 | 1h 15m | 1,217 | 1,218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 36 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county