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2015 Nueces County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Nueces County, TX went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 672K customer-hours (Texas average 1.9 hours). That ranks 98th worst of 238 Texas counties and 670th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nueces 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 11, 2015 23:45 | May 17, 2015 03:45 | 5d 4h | 22,239 | 202K |
| 2 | April 14, 2015 10:45 | April 20, 2015 21:15 | 6d 10h | 18,418 | 198K |
| 3 | May 24, 2015 06:45 | May 27, 2015 23:00 | 3d 16h | 10,654 | 44K |
| 4 | July 5, 2015 12:00 | July 6, 2015 05:15 | 17h 15m | 5,220 | 7,584 |
| 5 | April 24, 2015 08:30 | April 25, 2015 03:45 | 19h 15m | 3,882 | 14K |
| 6 | April 13, 2015 05:00 | April 14, 2015 07:30 | 1d 2h | 3,663 | 12K |
| 7 | February 20, 2015 13:15 | February 21, 2015 05:45 | 16h 30m | 3,656 | 9,282 |
| 8 | April 9, 2015 18:30 | April 10, 2015 00:00 | 5h 30m | 3,036 | 7,085 |
| 9 | April 25, 2015 12:00 | April 25, 2015 19:30 | 7h 30m | 2,923 | 2,619 |
| 10 | June 17, 2015 12:15 | June 19, 2015 06:00 | 1d 17h | 2,570 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 111 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Nueces 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AEP Texas Central Company | 2015 | 4.3 hrs | 2.02 | 2.9 hrs | 1.68 |
| San Patricio Electric Coop Inc | 2015 | 4.5 hrs | 2.04 | - | - |
| Nueces Electric Cooperative | 2015 | 7.7 hrs | 2.66 | 3.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| City of Robstown - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Texas's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 162,267 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. Nueces County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nueces County, TX 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/texas/nueces-county