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2022 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 57 California counties and 1124th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 5, 2022 14:45 | November 6, 2022 23:45 | 1d 9h | 37,095 | 24K |
| 2 | June 4, 2022 13:00 | June 8, 2022 07:45 | 3d 18h | 34,828 | 65K |
| 3 | July 20, 2022 05:45 | July 22, 2022 14:45 | 2d 9h | 25,489 | 167K |
| 4 | December 28, 2022 16:00 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | 3d 8h | 10,705 | 49K |
| 5 | September 13, 2022 14:30 | September 15, 2022 10:00 | 1d 19h | 8,757 | 21K |
| 6 | December 10, 2022 07:45 | December 14, 2022 08:15 | 4d | 8,399 | 135K |
| 7 | February 8, 2022 15:00 | February 12, 2022 06:00 | 3d 15h | 6,975 | 7,320 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 15:45 | August 7, 2022 05:00 | 2d 13h | 6,846 | 19K |
| 9 | October 1, 2022 05:30 | October 6, 2022 10:00 | 5d 4h | 6,454 | 44K |
| 10 | November 1, 2022 15:30 | November 5, 2022 08:15 | 3d 16h | 5,900 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 155 reached 100+ customers, 66 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 1.78 | 4.3 hrs | 1.63 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 95% of California's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,575 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. Monterey County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monterey County, CA annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/california/monterey-county