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2016 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 658K customer-hours (Michigan average 2.0 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 80 Michigan counties and 1501st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent 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 | July 12, 2016 12:30 | July 14, 2016 04:30 | 1d 16h | 8,748 | 50K |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 14:00 | July 26, 2016 00:30 | 2d 10h | 8,158 | 49K |
| 3 | June 15, 2016 06:00 | June 16, 2016 02:30 | 20h 30m | 7,715 | 13K |
| 4 | February 19, 2016 11:45 | February 21, 2016 05:00 | 1d 17h | 7,519 | 49K |
| 5 | March 16, 2016 04:30 | March 18, 2016 03:30 | 1d 23h | 6,507 | 38K |
| 6 | June 16, 2016 03:30 | June 17, 2016 18:15 | 1d 14h | 5,780 | 45K |
| 7 | April 23, 2016 23:45 | April 24, 2016 23:45 | 1d | 5,206 | 16K |
| 8 | July 21, 2016 13:45 | July 23, 2016 05:45 | 1d 16h | 5,049 | 20K |
| 9 | March 23, 2016 20:00 | March 25, 2016 22:00 | 2d 2h | 4,979 | 62K |
| 10 | June 23, 2016 12:00 | June 23, 2016 21:30 | 9h 30m | 4,861 | 9,508 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 113 reached 100+ customers, 39 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 Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2016 | 4.7 hrs | 1.15 | 3.5 hrs | 1.01 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2016 | 4.3 hrs | 1.82 | 2.7 hrs | 1.46 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 416,077 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, MI 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/michigan/kent-county