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2020 Greenwood County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Greenwood County, SC went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2149th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Greenwood 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 | March 24, 2020 09:45 | March 24, 2020 10:45 | 1h | 4,449 | 3,932 |
| 2 | January 12, 2020 02:30 | January 13, 2020 21:45 | 1d 19h | 2,857 | 12K |
| 3 | February 4, 2020 03:15 | February 4, 2020 06:00 | 2h 45m | 2,458 | 3,120 |
| 4 | December 24, 2020 23:45 | December 25, 2020 08:45 | 9h | 2,419 | 2,506 |
| 5 | July 9, 2020 10:00 | July 10, 2020 04:00 | 18h | 1,877 | 14K |
| 6 | July 10, 2020 14:15 | July 10, 2020 20:30 | 6h 15m | 1,581 | 5,835 |
| 7 | April 13, 2020 12:45 | April 15, 2020 01:15 | 1d 12h | 982 | 3,626 |
| 8 | March 6, 2020 04:45 | March 6, 2020 21:30 | 16h 45m | 873 | 2,782 |
| 9 | November 15, 2020 15:15 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | 7h | 833 | 1,256 |
| 10 | October 27, 2020 15:15 | October 30, 2020 23:30 | 3d 8h | 821 | 5,720 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 42 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Greenwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2020 | 2.4 hrs | 1.40 | 88 min | 1.17 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | - | 1.8 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Little River Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Greenwood CPW | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of South Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 40,695 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. Greenwood County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Greenwood County, SC 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/south-carolina/greenwood-county