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2020 Centre County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Centre County, PA went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 64th worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 2486th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with PA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Pennsylvania customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Centre 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 | May 6, 2020 08:45 | May 6, 2020 11:30 | 2h 45m | 5,479 | 13K |
| 2 | December 12, 2020 13:15 | December 12, 2020 14:15 | 1h | 2,751 | 2,064 |
| 3 | April 17, 2020 23:45 | April 19, 2020 01:45 | 1d 2h | 1,998 | 11K |
| 4 | July 27, 2020 21:00 | July 28, 2020 00:45 | 3h 45m | 1,600 | 2,938 |
| 5 | August 7, 2020 14:30 | August 8, 2020 01:30 | 11h | 1,503 | 2,020 |
| 6 | November 30, 2020 12:15 | November 30, 2020 17:15 | 5h | 1,477 | 2,989 |
| 7 | November 19, 2020 03:45 | November 19, 2020 06:15 | 2h 30m | 1,475 | 1,137 |
| 8 | September 19, 2020 04:15 | September 19, 2020 15:45 | 11h 30m | 1,457 | 12K |
| 9 | November 15, 2020 17:30 | November 17, 2020 17:15 | 1d 23h | 1,457 | 4,876 |
| 10 | January 12, 2020 12:15 | January 12, 2020 21:30 | 9h 15m | 1,405 | 1,327 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 80 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 Centre 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPL Electric Utilities Corp | 2020 | 2.0 hrs | 0.88 | 69 min | 0.69 |
| Pennsylvania Electric Co | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 1.91 | 3.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| West Penn Power Company | 2020 | 4.3 hrs | 1.27 | 2.7 hrs | 1.07 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| United Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Valley Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Pennsylvania's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 96,428 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. Centre County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Centre County, PA 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/pennsylvania/centre-county