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2017 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 7.0 hours, a total of 2.9M customer-hours (Michigan average 6.0 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 80 Michigan counties and 754th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 12, 2017 10:15 | 4d 22h | 110,606 | 1.9M |
| 2 | March 9, 2017 19:30 | March 10, 2017 16:30 | 21h | 15,970 | 185K |
| 3 | October 7, 2017 09:45 | October 9, 2017 01:00 | 1d 15h | 7,839 | 33K |
| 4 | May 19, 2017 12:00 | May 20, 2017 09:00 | 21h | 7,422 | 9,628 |
| 5 | December 5, 2017 03:00 | December 7, 2017 05:45 | 2d 2h | 6,400 | 65K |
| 6 | April 6, 2017 01:00 | April 8, 2017 02:15 | 2d 1h | 6,175 | 57K |
| 7 | April 10, 2017 13:30 | April 11, 2017 23:30 | 1d 10h | 5,673 | 30K |
| 8 | June 6, 2017 11:15 | June 7, 2017 05:15 | 18h | 5,589 | 12K |
| 9 | March 10, 2017 19:30 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 1d 10h | 4,875 | 63K |
| 10 | July 12, 2017 11:00 | July 13, 2017 03:30 | 16h 30m | 4,259 | 7,388 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 157 reached 100+ customers, 61 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2017 | 10.1 hrs | 1.31 | 2.7 hrs | 0.89 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2017 | 5.6 hrs | 2.07 | 3.0 hrs | 1.50 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 416,077 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 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, MI 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/michigan/kent-county