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2023 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 147K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2588th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island 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 18, 2023 08:15 | December 21, 2023 10:30 | 3d 2h | 7,083 | 72K |
| 2 | December 11, 2023 04:30 | December 12, 2023 05:15 | 1d | 4,490 | 13K |
| 3 | November 19, 2023 20:15 | November 20, 2023 01:00 | 4h 45m | 2,576 | 690 |
| 4 | June 10, 2023 05:15 | June 10, 2023 07:15 | 2h | 2,553 | 1,379 |
| 5 | July 16, 2023 15:30 | July 17, 2023 16:15 | 1d | 2,207 | 2,666 |
| 6 | January 13, 2023 08:15 | January 13, 2023 14:15 | 6h | 2,142 | 1,692 |
| 7 | July 4, 2023 19:45 | July 5, 2023 05:00 | 9h 15m | 2,119 | 3,520 |
| 8 | June 25, 2023 10:00 | June 25, 2023 11:30 | 1h 30m | 1,910 | 1,546 |
| 9 | June 24, 2023 12:00 | June 24, 2023 17:15 | 5h 15m | 1,838 | 2,580 |
| 10 | March 23, 2023 20:00 | March 24, 2023 00:00 | 4h | 1,332 | 1,335 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 55 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Narragansett Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.78 | 52 min | 0.67 |
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 Rhode Island's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 120,795 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, RI 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/rhode-island/kent-county