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2015 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Michigan average 6.8 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 80 Michigan counties and 785th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent 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 24, 2015 04:45 | December 28, 2015 01:00 | 3d 20h | 21,960 | 506K |
| 2 | August 2, 2015 11:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 2d 6h | 18,392 | 313K |
| 3 | July 13, 2015 09:30 | July 15, 2015 18:15 | 2d 8h | 10,469 | 75K |
| 4 | June 22, 2015 11:00 | June 24, 2015 03:15 | 1d 16h | 8,880 | 31K |
| 5 | July 20, 2015 11:15 | July 20, 2015 23:30 | 12h 15m | 7,965 | 27K |
| 6 | December 28, 2015 10:30 | December 31, 2015 00:15 | 2d 13h | 5,875 | 31K |
| 7 | July 2, 2015 10:30 | July 2, 2015 21:45 | 11h 15m | 5,306 | 8,789 |
| 8 | September 12, 2015 12:15 | September 13, 2015 03:00 | 14h 45m | 4,907 | 22K |
| 9 | May 9, 2015 01:15 | May 10, 2015 08:00 | 1d 6h | 3,737 | 17K |
| 10 | July 21, 2015 02:00 | July 21, 2015 21:00 | 19h | 3,697 | 3,814 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 185 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2015 | 7.3 hrs | 1.18 | 3.0 hrs | 0.98 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2015 | 15.2 hrs | 2.27 | 2.9 hrs | 1.35 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 416,077 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, MI 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/michigan/kent-county