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2017 Kent County, MD Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kent County, MD went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Maryland average 1.9 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 24 Maryland counties and 2004th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MD, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maryland customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent 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 | April 21, 2017 02:15 | April 21, 2017 03:15 | 1h | 2,414 | 1,527 |
| 2 | August 2, 2017 07:00 | August 2, 2017 10:00 | 3h | 1,218 | 2,873 |
| 3 | April 11, 2017 14:00 | April 11, 2017 14:30 | 30m | 828 | 414 |
| 4 | March 14, 2017 11:15 | March 14, 2017 15:30 | 4h 15m | 588 | 688 |
| 5 | January 23, 2017 17:30 | January 23, 2017 23:15 | 5h 45m | 542 | 1,759 |
| 6 | September 19, 2017 16:00 | September 19, 2017 16:15 | 15m | 484 | 121 |
| 7 | April 6, 2017 19:00 | April 6, 2017 23:15 | 4h 15m | 418 | 614 |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 19:45 | March 1, 2017 21:00 | 1h 15m | 362 | 246 |
| 9 | February 25, 2017 21:45 | February 25, 2017 23:00 | 1h 15m | 218 | 57 |
| 10 | September 8, 2017 19:15 | September 8, 2017 19:45 | 30m | 180 | 50 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 14 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delmarva Power | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | 1.19 | 86 min | 0.98 |
| Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc | 2017 | 2.5 hrs | 1.66 | 2.0 hrs | 1.52 |
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 Maryland's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 10,903 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2017, 2019–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, MD 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/maryland/kent-county