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2020 Kershaw County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Kershaw County, SC went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 144K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1771st 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 Kershaw 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 | August 5, 2020 12:30 | August 9, 2020 00:15 | 3d 11h | 2,586 | 83K |
| 2 | July 7, 2020 11:45 | July 7, 2020 14:45 | 3h | 1,735 | 2,487 |
| 3 | April 6, 2020 17:00 | April 15, 2020 16:15 | 8d 23h | 1,633 | 10K |
| 4 | July 15, 2020 16:30 | July 15, 2020 18:15 | 1h 45m | 1,583 | 1,089 |
| 5 | March 22, 2020 12:30 | March 22, 2020 14:15 | 1h 45m | 1,195 | 1,161 |
| 6 | May 25, 2020 03:30 | May 25, 2020 07:00 | 3h 30m | 864 | 3,019 |
| 7 | May 19, 2020 03:45 | May 19, 2020 06:15 | 2h 30m | 824 | 647 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 21:30 | May 23, 2020 08:00 | 10h 30m | 764 | 1,320 |
| 9 | October 27, 2020 14:30 | October 29, 2020 20:30 | 2d 6h | 740 | 1,142 |
| 10 | October 4, 2020 04:15 | October 4, 2020 09:15 | 5h | 686 | 1,375 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 56 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 Kershaw 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 Progress - (NC) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| 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 |
| Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (SC) | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 3.39 | 3.5 hrs | 3.25 |
| Lynches River Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 6.0 hrs | 2.30 | 2.7 hrs | 1.80 |
| Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Black River Electric Coop, Inc - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Camden | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 43,198 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. Kershaw County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kershaw 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/kershaw-county