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2017 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 14.4 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 13.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 384th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island 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 | October 29, 2017 16:15 | November 4, 2017 15:30 | 5d 23h | 35,199 | 1.6M |
| 2 | February 9, 2017 15:15 | February 11, 2017 05:15 | 1d 14h | 5,405 | 27K |
| 3 | March 2, 2017 11:45 | March 3, 2017 22:15 | 1d 10h | 3,978 | 12K |
| 4 | September 21, 2017 17:15 | September 22, 2017 01:45 | 8h 30m | 3,784 | 5,653 |
| 5 | November 10, 2017 12:45 | November 10, 2017 22:15 | 9h 30m | 2,635 | 3,000 |
| 6 | June 12, 2017 02:45 | June 12, 2017 07:30 | 4h 45m | 2,619 | 727 |
| 7 | October 24, 2017 11:00 | October 25, 2017 02:30 | 15h 30m | 2,559 | 1,571 |
| 8 | March 10, 2017 03:00 | March 10, 2017 03:30 | 30m | 2,529 | 1,265 |
| 9 | May 2, 2017 22:45 | May 2, 2017 23:45 | 1h | 2,519 | 633 |
| 10 | March 17, 2017 01:00 | March 17, 2017 07:45 | 6h 45m | 2,397 | 4,916 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 65 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Narragansett Electric Co | 2017 | 12.1 hrs | 1.19 | 59 min | 0.78 |
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 Rhode Island's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 120,795 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, RI 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/rhode-island/kent-county