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2020 Mercer County, PA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Mercer County, PA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 169K customer-hours (Pennsylvania average 6.5 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 67 Pennsylvania counties and 1729th 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 Mercer 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 2, 2020 10:15 | June 3, 2020 02:00 | 15h 45m | 6,060 | 1,778 |
| 2 | May 30, 2020 14:15 | June 1, 2020 07:45 | 1d 17h | 4,189 | 1,912 |
| 3 | June 10, 2020 13:15 | June 12, 2020 18:00 | 2d 4h | 3,349 | 23K |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 18:15 | November 19, 2020 00:45 | 3d 6h | 2,722 | 38K |
| 5 | August 27, 2020 20:30 | August 30, 2020 08:30 | 2d 12h | 2,561 | 11K |
| 6 | March 29, 2020 06:00 | March 30, 2020 19:15 | 1d 13h | 2,402 | 9,970 |
| 7 | September 20, 2020 08:00 | September 20, 2020 14:45 | 6h 45m | 2,092 | 1,805 |
| 8 | January 12, 2020 08:00 | January 14, 2020 07:00 | 1d 23h | 1,985 | 14K |
| 9 | March 12, 2020 12:15 | March 12, 2020 15:15 | 3h | 1,046 | 861 |
| 10 | June 18, 2020 20:00 | June 18, 2020 23:30 | 3h 30m | 1,004 | 709 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 75 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Mercer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania Power Co | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 0.98 | 1.6 hrs | 0.79 |
| FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Central Electric Coop, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Grove City - (PA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 48,402 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county