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2015 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 96K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.5 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1576th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Laurens 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 | May 27, 2015 21:15 | May 28, 2015 01:15 | 4h | 4,498 | 4,275 |
| 2 | February 17, 2015 02:00 | February 19, 2015 15:00 | 2d 13h | 3,084 | 56K |
| 3 | March 25, 2015 08:30 | March 25, 2015 20:15 | 11h 45m | 2,409 | 9,336 |
| 4 | October 12, 2015 13:00 | October 12, 2015 20:00 | 7h | 1,536 | 2,705 |
| 5 | August 6, 2015 12:00 | August 6, 2015 16:15 | 4h 15m | 1,488 | 939 |
| 6 | February 14, 2015 19:30 | February 14, 2015 21:15 | 1h 45m | 1,202 | 1,203 |
| 7 | February 3, 2015 19:00 | February 3, 2015 23:30 | 4h 30m | 1,063 | 1,028 |
| 8 | October 17, 2015 19:15 | October 17, 2015 20:00 | 45m | 688 | 173 |
| 9 | October 4, 2015 01:45 | October 5, 2015 19:45 | 1d 18h | 508 | 5,092 |
| 10 | September 4, 2015 19:30 | September 4, 2015 23:15 | 3h 45m | 431 | 242 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 31 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Laurens 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 3.4 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.88 |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 South Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens County, SC 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/south-carolina/laurens-county