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2023 Kent County, MI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kent County, MI went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 3.8M customer-hours (Michigan average 26.5 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 83 Michigan counties and 914th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Michigan 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 | August 24, 2023 16:30 | August 30, 2023 06:15 | 5d 13h | 62,764 | 2.4M |
| 2 | December 9, 2023 13:30 | December 11, 2023 04:30 | 1d 15h | 14,858 | 104K |
| 3 | June 29, 2023 10:45 | July 2, 2023 05:00 | 2d 18h | 13,586 | 136K |
| 4 | February 27, 2023 10:45 | March 4, 2023 18:15 | 5d 7h | 11,876 | 429K |
| 5 | February 15, 2023 12:15 | February 17, 2023 03:45 | 1d 15h | 7,382 | 35K |
| 6 | June 24, 2023 21:15 | June 27, 2023 02:15 | 2d 5h | 6,866 | 80K |
| 7 | September 29, 2023 12:15 | September 30, 2023 03:30 | 15h 15m | 6,142 | 26K |
| 8 | April 5, 2023 09:00 | April 6, 2023 08:00 | 23h | 4,126 | 31K |
| 9 | August 30, 2023 07:30 | September 2, 2023 05:45 | 2d 22h | 4,047 | 7,452 |
| 10 | August 20, 2023 17:30 | August 21, 2023 09:00 | 15h 30m | 4,028 | 7,769 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 202 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumers Energy Co - (MI) | 2023 | 15.2 hrs | 1.37 | 2.9 hrs | 0.96 |
| Great Lakes Energy Coop | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.69 | 3.4 hrs | 1.56 |
| City of Lowell - (MI) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Michigan's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 416,077 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, MI 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/michigan/kent-county