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2015 Berks County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Berks County, PA went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 537K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1070th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Berks 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 | June 12, 2015 19:30 | June 16, 2015 06:00 | 3d 10h | 16,491 | 65K |
| 2 | July 19, 2015 03:00 | July 21, 2015 03:30 | 2d | 12,686 | 15K |
| 3 | August 10, 2015 10:30 | August 12, 2015 06:00 | 1d 19h | 9,012 | 15K |
| 4 | September 21, 2015 22:45 | September 22, 2015 00:45 | 2h | 6,804 | 6,998 |
| 5 | June 23, 2015 05:15 | June 24, 2015 07:30 | 1d 2h | 6,693 | 11K |
| 6 | December 15, 2015 03:15 | December 16, 2015 03:30 | 1d | 6,243 | 13K |
| 7 | October 6, 2015 13:00 | October 6, 2015 22:00 | 9h | 6,024 | 1,712 |
| 8 | September 28, 2015 09:30 | September 28, 2015 13:30 | 4h | 5,995 | 1,503 |
| 9 | December 1, 2015 03:15 | December 1, 2015 10:30 | 7h 15m | 4,949 | 11K |
| 10 | October 28, 2015 14:30 | October 30, 2015 10:00 | 1d 19h | 3,970 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 163 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Berks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2015 | 86 min | 0.74 | 76 min | 0.67 |
| Metropolitan Edison Co | 2015 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Kutztown - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Pennsylvania's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 219,087 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. Berks County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Berks County, PA 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/pennsylvania/berks-county