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County annual report · FIPS 23011

2017 Kennebec County, ME Power Outage Report

In 2017, customers in Kennebec County, ME went without power for an average of 41.9 hours, a total of 3.7M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 16 Maine counties and 105th of 2,786 nationally.

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Avg hrs / customer
41.9
87,760 customers
Customer-hours out
3.7M
Peak customers out
49,159
Outages ≥1,000 out
40
1 of 10,000+ · 636 total
Longest outage
6d 1h
began October 30, 2017
Rank in state
9th/16
105th of 2,786 US

Compared with ME, the US and 2016

Kennebec County, ME average hours without power per customer compared with state and national averages, 2017Kennebec County 41.9 hours, Maine average 37.7 hours, US average 7.4 hours, Kennebec County, 2016 6.9 hoursKennebec CountyKennebec County41.9hMaine averageMaine average37.7hUS averageUS average7.4hKennebec County, 2016Kennebec County, 20166.9h
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Average hours without power per customer in 2017; last bar is this county in 2016.

Month by month

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Kennebec County, ME customer-hours without power by month, 2017Jan 36K, Feb 11K, Mar 43K, Apr 15K, May 15K, Jun 18K, Jul 17K, Aug 17K, Sep 21K, Oct 1.6M, Nov 1.8M, Dec 19K0500k1M1.5M2M36KJan11KFeb43KMar15KApr15KMay18KJun17KJul17KAug21KSep1.6MOct1.8MNov19KDec
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Customer-hours; November was the worst month.

Kennebec County year over year

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Kennebec County, ME: average hours without power per customer by year2015: 1.6h; 2016: 6.9h; 2017: 41.9h; 2018: 4.7h, coverage 96%; 2019: 1.4h, coverage 96%; 2020: 38.3h, coverage 96%; 2021: 4.4h, coverage 96%; 2022: 10.6h, coverage 96%; 2023: 55.4h; 2024: 13.9h; 2025: 2.8h02040600%50%100%1.6h20156.9h201641.9h20174.7h20181.4h201938.3h20204.4h202110.6h202255.4h202313.9h20242.8h2025
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Average hours without power per customer. Line: EAGLE-I coverage, share of customers tracked (right axis).

Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.

Biggest outages in Kennebec County, 2017

The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.

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#Started (UTC)Ended (UTC)DurationPeak outCustomer-hours
1October 30, 2017 02:30November 5, 2017 04:006d 1h49,1593.3M
2March 14, 2017 21:30March 15, 2017 20:0022h 30m4,97538K
3June 29, 2017 15:15June 29, 2017 16:0045m4,6522,298
4November 10, 2017 07:45November 11, 2017 23:451d 16h4,32129K
5November 5, 2017 05:00November 8, 2017 00:152d 19h3,95992K
6April 10, 2017 02:15April 10, 2017 04:302h 15m3,6776,058
7October 24, 2017 17:45October 24, 2017 23:155h 30m2,9223,599
8July 2, 2017 09:45July 2, 2017 13:153h 30m2,8575,219
9April 9, 2017 14:30April 9, 2017 17:002h 30m2,5633,279
10June 21, 2017 15:15June 21, 2017 15:4530m2,5071,125

Outage episodes by size in 2017: 171 reached 100+ customers, 40 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 Kennebec County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.

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UtilityEIA yearSAIDISAIFISAIDI excl. major eventsSAIFI excl. major events
Central Maine Power Co201744.9 hrs2.733.4 hrs1.81

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 Maine's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
  • Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 87,760 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. Kennebec County has data for 2015–2025.

Cite this report

MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kennebec County, ME 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/maine/kennebec-county

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