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2023 Kent County, DE Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kent County, DE went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 78K customer-hours (Delaware average 2.3 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 3 Delaware counties and 2737th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with DE, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Delaware customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Kent 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 | December 12, 2023 19:00 | December 12, 2023 20:45 | 1h 45m | 6,146 | 2,264 |
| 2 | March 21, 2023 17:00 | March 21, 2023 21:30 | 4h 30m | 3,971 | 998 |
| 3 | July 3, 2023 18:00 | July 4, 2023 08:15 | 14h 15m | 2,926 | 4,495 |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 13:30 | February 23, 2023 14:15 | 45m | 2,851 | 714 |
| 5 | August 15, 2023 00:45 | August 15, 2023 01:15 | 30m | 2,617 | 1,309 |
| 6 | April 1, 2023 21:30 | April 2, 2023 04:45 | 7h 15m | 2,576 | 3,379 |
| 7 | October 15, 2023 00:45 | October 15, 2023 02:00 | 1h 15m | 2,219 | 664 |
| 8 | February 13, 2023 03:15 | February 13, 2023 05:00 | 1h 45m | 1,939 | 991 |
| 9 | July 18, 2023 14:00 | July 18, 2023 21:00 | 7h | 1,694 | 2,119 |
| 10 | October 21, 2023 06:00 | October 21, 2023 19:15 | 13h 15m | 1,672 | 3,179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 85 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Kent 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delmarva Power | 2023 | 2.1 hrs | 0.76 | 58 min | 0.60 |
| Delaware Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 83 min | 1.29 | 68 min | 1.13 |
| City of Milford - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Smyrna - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Dover - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Clayton - (DE) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Delaware's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 98,370 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent County, DE 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/delaware/kent-county