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2020 Kennebec County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kennebec County, ME went without power for an average of 38.3 hours, a total of 3.4M customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 16 Maine counties and 212th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kennebec 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 | April 9, 2020 20:45 | April 15, 2020 22:00 | 6d 1h | 42,773 | 1.5M |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 19:00 | December 10, 2020 02:15 | 4d 7h | 25,320 | 812K |
| 3 | September 30, 2020 09:45 | October 3, 2020 01:45 | 2d 16h | 24,510 | 341K |
| 4 | August 4, 2020 23:30 | August 6, 2020 15:00 | 1d 15h | 12,306 | 131K |
| 5 | November 30, 2020 21:45 | December 4, 2020 21:30 | 3d 23h | 12,046 | 208K |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 10:30 | August 26, 2020 23:00 | 1d 12h | 6,212 | 38K |
| 7 | December 25, 2020 05:30 | December 26, 2020 14:30 | 1d 9h | 5,364 | 24K |
| 8 | March 4, 2020 14:45 | March 6, 2020 00:45 | 1d 10h | 4,975 | 14K |
| 9 | March 30, 2020 03:30 | March 30, 2020 05:45 | 2h 15m | 3,786 | 7,574 |
| 10 | August 30, 2020 12:30 | August 31, 2020 01:45 | 13h 15m | 3,614 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 174 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Maine Power Co | 2020 | 29.6 hrs | 3.74 | 3.7 hrs | 2.04 |
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 2020; 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, 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/maine/kennebec-county