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2015 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 73K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 5.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1663rd 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 Newport 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 | July 11, 2015 12:30 | July 12, 2015 01:15 | 12h 45m | 8,947 | 13K |
| 2 | October 29, 2015 07:45 | October 29, 2015 17:45 | 10h | 6,279 | 8,615 |
| 3 | March 14, 2015 04:00 | March 14, 2015 04:45 | 45m | 5,381 | 1,991 |
| 4 | February 16, 2015 02:15 | February 16, 2015 03:45 | 1h 30m | 2,915 | 3,588 |
| 5 | August 12, 2015 23:15 | August 13, 2015 05:15 | 6h | 2,798 | 4,742 |
| 6 | August 9, 2015 21:45 | August 10, 2015 03:15 | 5h 30m | 2,596 | 4,535 |
| 7 | July 28, 2015 21:30 | July 28, 2015 23:30 | 2h | 2,543 | 1,304 |
| 8 | December 22, 2015 20:30 | December 23, 2015 00:45 | 4h 15m | 2,042 | 5,686 |
| 9 | June 23, 2015 23:00 | June 24, 2015 06:00 | 7h | 2,041 | 1,194 |
| 10 | December 15, 2015 03:00 | December 15, 2015 04:45 | 1h 45m | 2,035 | 1,672 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 31 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Newport 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 ÷ 62,021 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. Newport County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport 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/newport-county