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2023 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 28K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2826th 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 Newport 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 | March 21, 2023 13:45 | March 21, 2023 14:30 | 45m | 3,305 | 1,924 |
| 2 | February 16, 2023 12:15 | February 16, 2023 13:30 | 1h 15m | 2,751 | 1,376 |
| 3 | May 21, 2023 04:45 | May 21, 2023 05:30 | 45m | 2,432 | 1,347 |
| 4 | April 5, 2023 14:45 | April 5, 2023 22:15 | 7h 30m | 1,843 | 1,285 |
| 5 | June 26, 2023 22:00 | June 26, 2023 22:30 | 30m | 1,780 | 890 |
| 6 | February 3, 2023 17:15 | February 4, 2023 21:15 | 1d 4h | 1,773 | 4,201 |
| 7 | January 3, 2023 22:00 | January 4, 2023 00:00 | 2h | 1,596 | 2,394 |
| 8 | November 22, 2023 07:45 | November 22, 2023 09:45 | 2h | 1,288 | 2,213 |
| 9 | March 22, 2023 13:30 | March 22, 2023 16:15 | 2h 45m | 759 | 2,087 |
| 10 | April 23, 2023 03:45 | April 23, 2023 08:15 | 4h 30m | 701 | 821 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 22 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Newport 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 ÷ 62,021 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. Newport County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport 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/newport-county