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2020 Ector County, TX Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ector County, TX went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Texas average 5.3 hours). That ranks 237th worst of 254 Texas counties and 2534th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with TX, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Texas customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Ector 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 12, 2020 13:15 | August 13, 2020 06:00 | 16h 45m | 5,246 | 8,929 |
| 2 | September 14, 2020 13:30 | September 15, 2020 04:45 | 15h 15m | 5,178 | 11K |
| 3 | January 16, 2020 19:30 | January 17, 2020 02:30 | 7h | 3,821 | 3,618 |
| 4 | January 17, 2020 04:30 | January 17, 2020 11:45 | 7h 15m | 3,820 | 6,498 |
| 5 | March 7, 2020 20:30 | March 8, 2020 02:15 | 5h 45m | 3,060 | 821 |
| 6 | July 31, 2020 10:15 | August 2, 2020 01:45 | 1d 15h | 2,945 | 9,221 |
| 7 | November 22, 2020 17:45 | November 23, 2020 11:00 | 17h 15m | 2,675 | 8,744 |
| 8 | April 21, 2020 13:00 | April 22, 2020 01:15 | 12h 15m | 2,644 | 754 |
| 9 | June 4, 2020 13:00 | June 5, 2020 05:45 | 16h 45m | 2,139 | 1,753 |
| 10 | June 20, 2020 16:45 | June 22, 2020 11:15 | 1d 18h | 1,994 | 4,775 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 132 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Ector 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC | 2017 | 3.4 hrs | 1.69 | 2.4 hrs | 1.49 |
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| City of Goldsmith - (TX) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 63% of Texas's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 156,481 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. Ector County has data for 2015, 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ector County, TX 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/texas/ector-county