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2020 Spencer County, KY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Spencer County, KY went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 20K customer-hours (Kentucky average 4.7 hours). That ranks 73rd worst of 119 Kentucky counties and 2077th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with KY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Kentucky customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Spencer 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 | October 23, 2020 23:15 | October 24, 2020 05:30 | 6h 15m | 1,341 | 3,544 |
| 2 | January 11, 2020 15:30 | January 12, 2020 10:30 | 19h | 1,175 | 3,113 |
| 3 | August 5, 2020 13:45 | August 5, 2020 14:15 | 30m | 865 | 433 |
| 4 | August 19, 2020 15:30 | August 19, 2020 15:45 | 15m | 865 | 216 |
| 5 | August 27, 2020 14:00 | August 27, 2020 14:15 | 15m | 865 | 216 |
| 6 | August 30, 2020 07:30 | August 30, 2020 08:30 | 1h | 865 | 865 |
| 7 | September 2, 2020 18:15 | September 2, 2020 18:45 | 30m | 865 | 433 |
| 8 | September 5, 2020 14:00 | September 5, 2020 14:30 | 30m | 865 | 433 |
| 9 | September 17, 2020 05:00 | September 17, 2020 08:15 | 3h 15m | 865 | 2,811 |
| 10 | September 17, 2020 13:00 | September 17, 2020 14:15 | 1h 15m | 864 | 1,080 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 Spencer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky Utilities Co | 2020 | 1.9 hrs | 1.02 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Blue Grass Energy Coop Corp | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Salt River Electric Coop Corp | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.99 | 86 min | 0.88 |
| Shelby Energy Coop, Inc - (KY) | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 0.94 | 1.9 hrs | 0.77 |
| Louisville Gas & Electric Co | 2020 | 1.8 hrs | 0.88 | 72 min | 0.75 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 92% of Kentucky's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 8,434 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. Spencer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Spencer County, KY 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/kentucky/spencer-county