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2020 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 926K customer-hours (California average 6.3 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 57 California counties and 1447th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 14, 2020 16:15 | September 13, 2020 01:15 | 29d 9h | 59,117 | 461K |
| 2 | January 20, 2020 01:00 | January 20, 2020 07:30 | 6h 30m | 9,499 | 7,511 |
| 3 | May 2, 2020 16:00 | May 3, 2020 04:30 | 12h 30m | 8,663 | 5,908 |
| 4 | December 16, 2020 14:15 | December 16, 2020 14:30 | 15m | 7,687 | 1,922 |
| 5 | February 29, 2020 04:30 | March 2, 2020 00:00 | 1d 19h | 7,644 | 3,644 |
| 6 | October 30, 2020 12:00 | October 31, 2020 09:00 | 21h | 5,998 | 12K |
| 7 | April 5, 2020 06:45 | April 6, 2020 07:15 | 1d | 5,227 | 5,724 |
| 8 | March 11, 2020 12:30 | March 13, 2020 02:15 | 1d 13h | 5,150 | 6,656 |
| 9 | May 30, 2020 06:45 | May 30, 2020 11:30 | 4h 45m | 4,848 | 4,743 |
| 10 | December 16, 2020 15:15 | December 16, 2020 15:45 | 30m | 4,472 | 2,236 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 186 reached 100+ customers, 47 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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. | 2020 | 7.4 hrs | 1.34 | 2.3 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 94% of California's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/california/monterey-county