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2018 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 394K customer-hours (California average 3.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 57 California counties and 1866th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2018
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 24, 2018 16:00 | December 27, 2018 13:45 | 2d 21h | 6,868 | 20K |
| 2 | July 1, 2018 00:00 | July 4, 2018 13:30 | 3d 13h | 5,540 | 15K |
| 3 | December 27, 2018 17:30 | December 30, 2018 07:30 | 2d 14h | 5,510 | 9,181 |
| 4 | November 12, 2018 02:00 | November 14, 2018 09:00 | 2d 7h | 4,906 | 19K |
| 5 | October 25, 2018 18:30 | October 27, 2018 02:15 | 1d 7h | 4,515 | 7,042 |
| 6 | July 14, 2018 00:30 | July 16, 2018 05:15 | 2d 4h | 4,300 | 21K |
| 7 | June 9, 2018 03:15 | June 11, 2018 05:00 | 2d 1h | 3,801 | 7,746 |
| 8 | November 4, 2018 15:45 | November 5, 2018 00:45 | 9h | 3,581 | 3,855 |
| 9 | November 5, 2018 02:30 | November 6, 2018 08:00 | 1d 5h | 3,512 | 9,391 |
| 10 | July 23, 2018 22:00 | July 24, 2018 06:45 | 8h 45m | 3,325 | 6,546 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 102 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2018 | 5.0 hrs | 1.18 | 2.1 hrs | 1.08 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of California's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,575 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. Monterey County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monterey County, CA annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/california/monterey-county