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2017 Waldo County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Waldo County, ME went without power for an average of 71.4 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Maine average 37.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 16 Maine counties and 30th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Waldo 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 03:30 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 6d | 22,738 | 1.4M |
| 2 | November 5, 2017 05:00 | November 7, 2017 20:00 | 2d 15h | 5,362 | 49K |
| 3 | February 6, 2017 09:45 | February 6, 2017 11:15 | 1h 30m | 2,689 | 3,392 |
| 4 | August 26, 2017 04:15 | August 26, 2017 07:00 | 2h 45m | 2,686 | 7,387 |
| 5 | December 8, 2017 11:00 | December 8, 2017 19:45 | 8h 45m | 2,501 | 1,063 |
| 6 | November 19, 2017 05:45 | November 19, 2017 16:45 | 11h | 2,190 | 9,816 |
| 7 | April 7, 2017 19:15 | April 7, 2017 20:00 | 45m | 2,175 | 1,631 |
| 8 | August 16, 2017 12:15 | August 16, 2017 14:30 | 2h 15m | 2,172 | 1,631 |
| 9 | April 7, 2017 21:30 | April 7, 2017 21:45 | 15m | 2,069 | 517 |
| 10 | December 13, 2017 04:15 | December 13, 2017 21:15 | 17h | 1,733 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 74 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Waldo 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 |
| Versant Power | 2017 | 31.6 hrs | 3.05 | 6.1 hrs | 2.23 |
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 ÷ 22,684 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. Waldo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waldo 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/waldo-county