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2020 Newberry County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newberry County, SC went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (South Carolina average 5.7 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 1749th 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 Newberry 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 | April 13, 2020 12:45 | April 14, 2020 00:15 | 11h 30m | 2,695 | 5,831 |
| 2 | June 5, 2020 17:45 | June 6, 2020 00:00 | 6h 15m | 1,891 | 3,080 |
| 3 | October 16, 2020 14:30 | October 16, 2020 17:00 | 2h 30m | 1,130 | 567 |
| 4 | December 21, 2020 11:30 | December 21, 2020 21:30 | 10h | 1,110 | 4,018 |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 08:45 | February 8, 2020 02:00 | 17h 15m | 886 | 2,526 |
| 6 | June 25, 2020 15:30 | June 25, 2020 17:30 | 2h | 886 | 1,348 |
| 7 | January 12, 2020 03:00 | January 12, 2020 14:00 | 11h | 836 | 2,789 |
| 8 | May 24, 2020 23:30 | May 26, 2020 13:45 | 1d 14h | 783 | 28K |
| 9 | December 14, 2020 16:15 | December 14, 2020 19:30 | 3h 15m | 759 | 399 |
| 10 | December 9, 2020 16:15 | December 9, 2020 18:00 | 1h 45m | 747 | 326 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 40 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 Newberry 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 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.9 hrs | 1.44 | 1.9 hrs | 1.19 |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.2 hrs | 2.27 | 1.8 hrs | 1.67 |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.7 hrs | - | 3.4 hrs | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Newberry - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Prosperity - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 23,376 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. Newberry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newberry 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/newberry-county