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2020 Whiteside County, IL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Whiteside County, IL went without power for an average of 22.5 hours, a total of 989K customer-hours (Illinois average 5.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 102 Illinois counties and 384th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with IL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Illinois customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Whiteside 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 10, 2020 18:45 | August 16, 2020 23:00 | 6d 4h | 17,218 | 916K |
| 2 | November 10, 2020 20:15 | November 12, 2020 11:15 | 1d 15h | 3,375 | 30K |
| 3 | May 26, 2020 19:15 | May 28, 2020 02:30 | 1d 7h | 2,708 | 12K |
| 4 | September 2, 2020 06:00 | September 2, 2020 15:30 | 9h 30m | 809 | 1,091 |
| 5 | June 9, 2020 18:15 | June 10, 2020 22:45 | 1d 4h | 647 | 5,588 |
| 6 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | April 14, 2020 21:30 | 2h 15m | 504 | 424 |
| 7 | April 6, 2020 22:45 | April 7, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 503 | 484 |
| 8 | May 3, 2020 13:00 | May 3, 2020 17:30 | 4h 30m | 494 | 861 |
| 9 | April 17, 2020 11:15 | April 17, 2020 17:15 | 6h | 438 | 476 |
| 10 | July 12, 2020 01:15 | July 12, 2020 18:30 | 17h 15m | 337 | 1,584 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 35 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Whiteside 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Edison Co | 2020 | 5.7 hrs | 0.83 | 40 min | 0.55 |
| Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc | 2020 | 86 min | 0.69 | 49 min | 0.50 |
| City of Albany - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Rock Falls - (IL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Illinois's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,026 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. Whiteside County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Whiteside County, IL 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/illinois/whiteside-county