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2017 Mercer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Mercer County, KY went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Kentucky average 2.6 hours). That ranks 79th worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2019th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mercer County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1, 2017 12:45 | March 2, 2017 19:45 | 1d 7h | 742 | 5,519 |
| 2 | July 27, 2017 20:00 | July 28, 2017 03:30 | 7h 30m | 610 | 1,534 |
| 3 | June 5, 2017 01:45 | June 5, 2017 02:45 | 1h | 564 | 434 |
| 4 | November 18, 2017 19:15 | November 19, 2017 19:00 | 23h 45m | 542 | 1,159 |
| 5 | July 18, 2017 20:00 | July 18, 2017 20:30 | 30m | 118 | 59 |
| 6 | June 23, 2017 23:00 | June 24, 2017 16:45 | 17h 45m | 89 | 381 |
| 7 | July 28, 2017 18:00 | July 28, 2017 20:30 | 2h 30m | 87 | 85 |
| 8 | March 27, 2017 23:15 | March 28, 2017 02:30 | 3h 15m | 76 | 118 |
| 9 | January 10, 2017 19:15 | January 10, 2017 21:30 | 2h 15m | 73 | 68 |
| 10 | April 9, 2017 11:30 | April 9, 2017 14:15 | 2h 45m | 73 | 93 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 5 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Mercer County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2017 | 2.3 hrs | 1.21 | 80 min | 0.83 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2017 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 | 1.8 hrs | 0.98 |
| Inter County Energy Coop Corp - (KY) | 2017 | 2.9 hrs | 2.00 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.15 | 61 min | 0.80 |
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 Kentucky's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,645 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, KY annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/kentucky/mercer-county