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2017 Ector County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ector County, TX went without power for an average of 0.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Texas average 1.6 hours). That ranks 211th worst of 249 Texas counties and 2583rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ector 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 | December 7, 2017 14:15 | December 8, 2017 11:15 | 21h | 2,250 | 2,670 |
| 2 | December 13, 2017 07:15 | December 14, 2017 05:45 | 22h 30m | 1,830 | 1,409 |
| 3 | December 6, 2017 10:30 | December 7, 2017 08:30 | 22h | 1,582 | 1,943 |
| 4 | November 23, 2017 14:45 | November 24, 2017 02:00 | 11h 15m | 921 | 1,068 |
| 5 | December 28, 2017 17:30 | December 28, 2017 22:15 | 4h 45m | 326 | 449 |
| 6 | December 18, 2017 18:15 | December 18, 2017 22:30 | 4h 15m | 241 | 310 |
| 7 | November 22, 2017 10:45 | November 22, 2017 22:30 | 11h 45m | 224 | 671 |
| 8 | December 8, 2017 12:45 | December 8, 2017 20:45 | 8h | 186 | 403 |
| 9 | December 29, 2017 16:00 | December 30, 2017 03:00 | 11h | 145 | 184 |
| 10 | December 5, 2017 23:45 | December 6, 2017 07:45 | 8h | 131 | 481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 12 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Ector 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2017 | 3.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 1.05 |
| City of Goldsmith - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Texas's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 156,481 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. Ector County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ector County, TX 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/texas/ector-county