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2020 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (Michigan average 9.8 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 1377th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent 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 | June 8, 2020 08:45 | June 15, 2020 03:45 | 6d 19h | 30,374 | 934K |
| 2 | August 27, 2020 12:15 | August 30, 2020 10:15 | 2d 22h | 18,187 | 316K |
| 3 | July 7, 2020 22:15 | July 13, 2020 02:30 | 5d 4h | 11,946 | 101K |
| 4 | November 10, 2020 13:45 | November 13, 2020 00:45 | 2d 11h | 6,498 | 43K |
| 5 | June 2, 2020 23:45 | June 5, 2020 12:45 | 2d 13h | 5,380 | 56K |
| 6 | February 18, 2020 15:45 | February 18, 2020 18:15 | 2h 30m | 5,317 | 6,725 |
| 7 | August 10, 2020 22:15 | August 12, 2020 06:15 | 1d 8h | 4,758 | 17K |
| 8 | June 24, 2020 10:45 | June 29, 2020 03:30 | 4d 16h | 4,298 | 27K |
| 9 | December 20, 2020 18:00 | December 20, 2020 23:00 | 5h | 4,288 | 5,776 |
| 10 | April 27, 2020 11:00 | April 27, 2020 17:45 | 6h 45m | 3,685 | 9,968 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 181 reached 100+ customers, 57 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2020 | 8.5 hrs | 1.35 | 3.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2020 | 8.1 hrs | 2.57 | 3.5 hrs | 1.72 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of Michigan's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 416,077 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, MI 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/michigan/kent-county