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2016 Penobscot County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Penobscot County, ME went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 967K customer-hours (Maine average 7.8 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 15 Maine counties and 319th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Penobscot County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 30, 2016 04:00 | December 31, 2016 00:15 | 20h 15m | 21,404 | 239K |
| 2 | April 7, 2016 15:15 | April 10, 2016 01:15 | 2d 10h | 16,006 | 148K |
| 3 | February 16, 2016 21:00 | February 17, 2016 23:30 | 1d 2h | 7,868 | 48K |
| 4 | May 2, 2016 21:00 | May 3, 2016 03:30 | 6h 30m | 7,368 | 8,691 |
| 5 | January 10, 2016 21:00 | January 13, 2016 01:00 | 2d 4h | 7,088 | 73K |
| 6 | February 24, 2016 23:30 | February 29, 2016 18:45 | 4d 19h | 6,411 | 46K |
| 7 | April 19, 2016 07:45 | April 19, 2016 17:30 | 9h 45m | 5,851 | 20K |
| 8 | December 2, 2016 04:30 | December 2, 2016 07:00 | 2h 30m | 5,077 | 2,060 |
| 9 | May 10, 2016 13:30 | May 10, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 4,910 | 2,666 |
| 10 | May 19, 2016 06:30 | May 19, 2016 10:00 | 3h 30m | 4,837 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 187 reached 100+ customers, 52 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Penobscot County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2016 | 6.7 hrs | 2.20 | 3.3 hrs | 1.76 |
| Versant Power | 2016 | 17.1 hrs | 4.28 | 8.2 hrs | 3.46 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2016 | 11.6 hrs | 6.58 | 9.3 hrs | 5.54 |
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 Maine's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 88,128 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. Penobscot County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Penobscot County, ME annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/maine/penobscot-county