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2023 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 21.6 hours, a total of 4.2M customer-hours (California average 7.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 57 California counties and 369th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 1, 2023 03:30 | June 2, 2023 11:00 | 1d 7h | 63,153 | 37K |
| 2 | March 9, 2023 19:00 | March 19, 2023 04:30 | 9d 9h | 39,448 | 2.3M |
| 3 | January 1, 2023 00:00 | January 10, 2023 01:00 | 9d 1h | 33,950 | 589K |
| 4 | January 11, 2023 01:30 | January 17, 2023 12:15 | 6d 10h | 13,441 | 198K |
| 5 | March 19, 2023 05:30 | April 20, 2023 06:45 | 32d 1h | 13,143 | 136K |
| 6 | August 14, 2023 15:30 | August 19, 2023 06:15 | 4d 14h | 9,215 | 66K |
| 7 | December 27, 2023 17:00 | December 30, 2023 01:15 | 2d 8h | 8,460 | 55K |
| 8 | January 10, 2023 12:45 | January 10, 2023 19:00 | 6h 15m | 8,018 | 29K |
| 9 | February 21, 2023 16:00 | March 6, 2023 14:30 | 12d 22h | 7,265 | 117K |
| 10 | November 5, 2023 03:15 | November 11, 2023 06:15 | 6d 3h | 6,303 | 28K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 136 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2023, 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. | 2023 | 11.9 hrs | 2.22 | 4.3 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 n/a of California's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/california/monterey-county