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2017 Somerset County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Somerset County, ME went without power for an average of 67.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 16 Maine counties and 33rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Somerset 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 | October 30, 2017 16:45 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 5d 11h | 21,116 | 1.2M |
| 2 | December 26, 2017 19:00 | December 27, 2017 02:15 | 7h 15m | 2,769 | 11K |
| 3 | November 10, 2017 08:45 | November 11, 2017 22:15 | 1d 13h | 2,286 | 27K |
| 4 | December 19, 2017 23:45 | December 20, 2017 03:00 | 3h 15m | 1,420 | 3,549 |
| 5 | November 19, 2017 19:15 | November 20, 2017 05:45 | 10h 30m | 940 | 3,986 |
| 6 | December 30, 2017 11:45 | December 30, 2017 14:30 | 2h 45m | 864 | 2,336 |
| 7 | December 18, 2017 20:45 | December 19, 2017 01:45 | 5h | 835 | 1,523 |
| 8 | December 26, 2017 01:00 | December 26, 2017 05:00 | 4h | 803 | 1,030 |
| 9 | December 29, 2017 20:00 | December 29, 2017 23:45 | 3h 45m | 803 | 3,011 |
| 10 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 7, 2017 15:00 | 2d 10h | 683 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 26 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Somerset 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2017 | 44.9 hrs | 2.73 | 3.4 hrs | 1.81 |
| Town of Madison - (ME) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 19,524 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. Somerset County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county