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2020 Waldo County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Waldo County, ME went without power for an average of 83.4 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (Maine average 36.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 16 Maine counties and 85th 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 Waldo 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 19:30 | April 16, 2020 17:00 | 6d 21h | 22,013 | 1.3M |
| 2 | July 13, 2020 09:00 | July 13, 2020 21:45 | 12h 45m | 16,225 | 7,705 |
| 3 | September 30, 2020 10:00 | October 2, 2020 21:45 | 2d 11h | 9,770 | 184K |
| 4 | November 30, 2020 23:00 | December 4, 2020 02:15 | 3d 3h | 9,583 | 142K |
| 5 | December 5, 2020 21:00 | December 9, 2020 03:45 | 3d 6h | 6,447 | 139K |
| 6 | January 19, 2020 18:00 | January 19, 2020 19:15 | 1h 15m | 6,066 | 3,602 |
| 7 | April 30, 2020 00:00 | April 30, 2020 00:30 | 30m | 2,816 | 1,408 |
| 8 | March 12, 2020 05:15 | March 12, 2020 07:30 | 2h 15m | 2,520 | 4,819 |
| 9 | June 1, 2020 20:45 | June 1, 2020 23:45 | 3h | 2,282 | 3,995 |
| 10 | January 16, 2020 16:45 | January 16, 2020 22:45 | 6h | 2,279 | 9,112 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 88 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Waldo 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 |
| Versant Power | 2020 | 26.7 hrs | 4.11 | 5.3 hrs | 2.40 |
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 ÷ 22,684 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. Waldo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Waldo 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/waldo-county