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2016 Aiken County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Aiken County, SC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 85K customer-hours (South Carolina average 13.0 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1738th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aiken 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 24, 2016 15:45 | February 25, 2016 06:30 | 14h 45m | 3,378 | 8,192 |
| 2 | October 8, 2016 01:45 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 16h | 3,096 | 20K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 13, 2016 23:30 | 5d 1h | 2,888 | 16K |
| 4 | May 5, 2016 18:15 | May 6, 2016 01:30 | 7h 15m | 2,067 | 1,150 |
| 5 | March 2, 2016 05:45 | March 2, 2016 10:00 | 4h 15m | 1,301 | 505 |
| 6 | August 14, 2016 20:00 | August 15, 2016 02:30 | 6h 30m | 1,186 | 2,823 |
| 7 | August 18, 2016 19:15 | August 19, 2016 04:15 | 9h | 950 | 1,703 |
| 8 | April 30, 2016 11:15 | April 30, 2016 12:00 | 45m | 918 | 230 |
| 9 | November 19, 2016 04:30 | November 19, 2016 07:15 | 2h 45m | 904 | 1,594 |
| 10 | April 5, 2016 12:00 | April 5, 2016 14:30 | 2h 30m | 830 | 834 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 47 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Aiken 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2016 | 23.2 hrs | 2.80 | 1.5 hrs | 1.30 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2016 | 4.4 hrs | - | 1.7 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 South Carolina's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 79,309 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. Aiken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aiken County, SC 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/south-carolina/aiken-county