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2016 Mercer County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mercer County, PA went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 165K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 2.5 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 899th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mercer 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 | October 2, 2016 05:45 | October 2, 2016 08:30 | 2h 45m | 19,420 | 14K |
| 2 | July 22, 2016 12:15 | July 23, 2016 06:15 | 18h | 6,866 | 2,375 |
| 3 | September 8, 2016 20:45 | September 9, 2016 20:15 | 23h 30m | 4,401 | 8,977 |
| 4 | July 4, 2016 11:15 | July 5, 2016 09:30 | 22h 15m | 3,191 | 6,822 |
| 5 | September 10, 2016 21:15 | September 12, 2016 06:30 | 1d 9h | 2,779 | 20K |
| 6 | July 18, 2016 10:00 | July 19, 2016 04:30 | 18h 30m | 2,478 | 2,611 |
| 7 | February 18, 2016 10:30 | February 18, 2016 19:15 | 8h 45m | 2,463 | 8,011 |
| 8 | February 20, 2016 13:00 | February 20, 2016 22:30 | 9h 30m | 2,396 | 4,944 |
| 9 | December 20, 2016 06:30 | December 20, 2016 11:45 | 5h 15m | 1,954 | 2,546 |
| 10 | July 9, 2016 12:15 | July 10, 2016 01:15 | 13h | 1,632 | 1,608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Mercer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Power Co | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.13 | 1.8 hrs | 1.13 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Grove City - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Pennsylvania's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 48,402 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer County, PA 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/pennsylvania/mercer-county