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2023 Washington County, ME Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, ME went without power for an average of 49.2 hours, a total of 745K customer-hours (Maine average 38.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 16 Maine counties and 107th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ME, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Maine customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Washington 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 18, 2023 11:45 | December 25, 2023 03:30 | 6d 15h | 11,268 | 410K |
| 2 | September 16, 2023 07:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 1d 12h | 11,003 | 155K |
| 3 | November 27, 2023 11:30 | November 29, 2023 06:00 | 1d 18h | 4,263 | 47K |
| 4 | March 14, 2023 16:45 | March 16, 2023 20:30 | 2d 3h | 3,727 | 20K |
| 5 | December 11, 2023 11:15 | December 13, 2023 06:30 | 1d 19h | 3,655 | 16K |
| 6 | May 1, 2023 08:15 | May 1, 2023 23:45 | 15h 30m | 3,525 | 8,985 |
| 7 | July 5, 2023 18:15 | July 5, 2023 20:00 | 1h 45m | 3,398 | 852 |
| 8 | April 6, 2023 12:00 | April 6, 2023 13:00 | 1h | 2,431 | 2,431 |
| 9 | October 8, 2023 03:15 | October 9, 2023 01:15 | 22h | 2,245 | 15K |
| 10 | June 27, 2023 13:30 | June 27, 2023 23:00 | 9h 30m | 2,021 | 5,544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 51 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versant Power | 2023 | 41.3 hrs | 3.91 | 5.0 hrs | 2.19 |
| Eastern Maine Electric Coop | 2023 | 79.2 hrs | 11.37 | 41.3 hrs | 7.43 |
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 Maine's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,144 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington County, ME 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/maine/washington-county