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2022 San Luis Obispo County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in San Luis Obispo County, CA went without power for an average of 8.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (California average 4.9 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 57 California counties and 827th 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 San Luis Obispo 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 | December 10, 2022 20:45 | December 15, 2022 11:15 | 4d 14h | 29,494 | 328K |
| 2 | October 14, 2022 12:15 | October 15, 2022 18:45 | 1d 6h | 10,366 | 36K |
| 3 | March 1, 2022 14:45 | March 1, 2022 15:30 | 45m | 7,834 | 3,939 |
| 4 | September 8, 2022 14:15 | September 9, 2022 05:30 | 15h 15m | 6,328 | 20K |
| 5 | October 1, 2022 14:15 | October 3, 2022 03:00 | 1d 12h | 5,722 | 36K |
| 6 | November 16, 2022 14:45 | November 17, 2022 07:00 | 16h 15m | 5,716 | 4,975 |
| 7 | July 9, 2022 03:15 | July 9, 2022 08:00 | 4h 45m | 5,415 | 12K |
| 8 | July 30, 2022 15:00 | July 31, 2022 17:30 | 1d 2h | 4,522 | 16K |
| 9 | June 10, 2022 13:00 | June 13, 2022 03:45 | 2d 14h | 3,939 | 22K |
| 10 | March 29, 2022 14:30 | March 30, 2022 00:30 | 10h | 3,829 | 1,822 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 215 reached 100+ customers, 76 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 San Luis Obispo 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 ÷ 125,727 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. San Luis Obispo County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), San Luis Obispo 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/san-luis-obispo-county