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2018 Kennebec County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Kennebec County, ME went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 414K customer-hours (Maine average 10.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 16 Maine counties and 1100th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kennebec 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 | November 3, 2018 22:00 | November 5, 2018 22:00 | 2d | 5,942 | 81K |
| 2 | May 5, 2018 07:30 | May 6, 2018 00:30 | 17h | 4,007 | 22K |
| 3 | October 16, 2018 04:45 | October 17, 2018 19:00 | 1d 14h | 3,997 | 40K |
| 4 | January 9, 2018 14:30 | January 9, 2018 17:30 | 3h | 3,725 | 3,742 |
| 5 | January 9, 2018 01:45 | January 9, 2018 05:15 | 3h 30m | 3,718 | 13K |
| 6 | March 14, 2018 02:00 | March 16, 2018 18:45 | 2d 16h | 3,675 | 9,817 |
| 7 | March 17, 2018 16:30 | March 18, 2018 06:45 | 14h 15m | 3,598 | 10K |
| 8 | November 3, 2018 19:45 | November 3, 2018 21:15 | 1h 30m | 2,920 | 1,404 |
| 9 | January 23, 2018 18:45 | January 25, 2018 15:00 | 1d 20h | 2,858 | 30K |
| 10 | December 2, 2018 06:15 | December 2, 2018 07:15 | 1h | 2,536 | 2,536 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 174 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 Kennebec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2018 | 10.6 hrs | 2.64 | 3.9 hrs | 1.85 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 96% of Maine's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 87,760 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. Kennebec County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kennebec County, ME 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/maine/kennebec-county