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2015 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 12.3 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 5.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 210th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island 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 | August 4, 2015 10:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 7h 15m | 53,780 | 318K |
| 2 | August 4, 2015 18:30 | August 5, 2015 03:15 | 8h 45m | 53,428 | 406K |
| 3 | August 5, 2015 04:30 | August 10, 2015 22:15 | 5d 17h | 37,748 | 670K |
| 4 | June 22, 2015 18:30 | June 23, 2015 06:15 | 11h 45m | 25,991 | 12K |
| 5 | July 27, 2015 07:15 | July 27, 2015 17:15 | 10h | 5,404 | 7,542 |
| 6 | April 16, 2015 09:00 | April 17, 2015 00:00 | 15h | 3,305 | 4,380 |
| 7 | October 3, 2015 15:00 | October 4, 2015 03:30 | 12h 30m | 2,621 | 2,778 |
| 8 | December 25, 2015 22:15 | December 25, 2015 22:30 | 15m | 2,320 | 580 |
| 9 | June 23, 2015 22:15 | June 24, 2015 21:45 | 23h 30m | 2,186 | 5,956 |
| 10 | March 26, 2015 21:15 | March 27, 2015 14:45 | 17h 30m | 2,138 | 2,745 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 66 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Narragansett Electric Co | 2015 | 5.7 hrs | 1.23 | 64 min | 0.94 |
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 Rhode Island's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 120,795 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, RI 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/rhode-island/kent-county