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2016 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 341K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 3.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1045th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island 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 | February 5, 2016 12:15 | February 9, 2016 04:30 | 3d 16h | 15,245 | 180K |
| 2 | July 22, 2016 23:45 | July 24, 2016 21:45 | 1d 22h | 5,003 | 52K |
| 3 | August 14, 2016 13:00 | August 15, 2016 08:30 | 19h 30m | 4,467 | 14K |
| 4 | March 31, 2016 13:45 | April 1, 2016 05:15 | 15h 30m | 3,555 | 3,381 |
| 5 | August 9, 2016 15:30 | August 9, 2016 17:15 | 1h 45m | 3,552 | 1,628 |
| 6 | February 25, 2016 06:00 | February 26, 2016 02:00 | 20h | 2,894 | 10K |
| 7 | December 16, 2016 04:45 | December 16, 2016 09:30 | 4h 45m | 2,800 | 3,669 |
| 8 | February 14, 2016 08:00 | February 14, 2016 09:15 | 1h 15m | 2,733 | 3,415 |
| 9 | December 4, 2016 12:00 | December 4, 2016 17:15 | 5h 15m | 2,417 | 2,454 |
| 10 | May 1, 2016 11:45 | May 1, 2016 17:15 | 5h 30m | 2,402 | 3,056 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 72 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Narragansett Electric Co | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.21 | 69 min | 0.97 |
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 Rhode Island's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 120,795 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, RI 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/rhode-island/kent-county