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2015 Philadelphia County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Philadelphia County, PA went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 3.2 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 66 Pennsylvania counties and 1198th 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 Philadelphia 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 22, 2015 20:00 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 6d 13h | 43,629 | 405K |
| 2 | September 14, 2015 08:15 | September 16, 2015 08:00 | 1d 23h | 18,759 | 15K |
| 3 | June 17, 2015 10:15 | June 19, 2015 08:00 | 1d 21h | 18,585 | 24K |
| 4 | March 1, 2015 11:00 | March 8, 2015 06:00 | 6d 19h | 12,811 | 58K |
| 5 | May 26, 2015 19:30 | May 27, 2015 16:45 | 21h 15m | 7,450 | 8,489 |
| 6 | April 9, 2015 06:45 | April 11, 2015 07:30 | 2d | 7,320 | 12K |
| 7 | November 13, 2015 08:45 | November 15, 2015 05:15 | 1d 20h | 6,760 | 12K |
| 8 | April 28, 2015 08:15 | April 28, 2015 09:30 | 1h 15m | 6,532 | 5,267 |
| 9 | November 24, 2015 09:30 | November 26, 2015 09:00 | 1d 23h | 6,366 | 17K |
| 10 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 22, 2015 04:00 | 3d 12h | 6,189 | 20K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 241 reached 100+ customers, 126 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Philadelphia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PECO Energy Co | 2015 | 3.8 hrs | 0.94 | 65 min | 0.75 |
| Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 802,812 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. Philadelphia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Philadelphia 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/philadelphia-county