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2020 Perkins County, NE Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Perkins County, NE went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 973 customer-hours (Nebraska average 1.4 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 78 Nebraska counties and 2810th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NE, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Nebraska customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Perkins 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 00:00 | June 8, 2020 00:45 | 45m | 293 | 220 |
| 2 | May 19, 2020 16:30 | May 19, 2020 16:45 | 15m | 290 | 73 |
| 3 | December 8, 2020 14:15 | December 11, 2020 18:30 | 3d 4h | 161 | 158 |
| 4 | June 16, 2020 20:00 | June 16, 2020 21:30 | 1h 30m | 129 | 105 |
| 5 | February 22, 2020 21:15 | February 23, 2020 01:45 | 4h 30m | 87 | 171 |
| 6 | December 15, 2020 20:45 | December 15, 2020 21:30 | 45m | 63 | 32 |
| 7 | July 25, 2020 02:00 | July 25, 2020 03:45 | 1h 45m | 33 | 58 |
| 8 | July 30, 2020 14:30 | July 30, 2020 16:30 | 2h | 29 | 40 |
| 9 | December 29, 2020 01:15 | December 29, 2020 02:00 | 45m | 13 | 10 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 16:30 | February 7, 2020 18:00 | 1h 30m | 10 | 15 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Perkins 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska Public Power District | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.97 | 80 min | 0.78 |
| Midwest Electric Member Corp - (NE) | 2013 | 2.5 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Highline Electric Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Grant - (NE) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 48% of Nebraska's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,727 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. Perkins County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Perkins County, NE 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/nebraska/perkins-county