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2023 Georgetown County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Georgetown County, SC went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 55K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.7 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2593rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Georgetown 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 | September 24, 2023 13:45 | September 24, 2023 21:30 | 7h 45m | 3,102 | 1,580 |
| 2 | March 10, 2023 13:00 | March 10, 2023 16:30 | 3h 30m | 2,015 | 3,974 |
| 3 | December 17, 2023 14:00 | December 18, 2023 18:45 | 1d 4h | 1,770 | 7,670 |
| 4 | December 11, 2023 05:00 | December 11, 2023 17:15 | 12h 15m | 1,347 | 7,640 |
| 5 | February 12, 2023 13:00 | February 12, 2023 18:15 | 5h 15m | 1,345 | 405 |
| 6 | November 6, 2023 02:00 | November 6, 2023 04:00 | 2h | 1,187 | 359 |
| 7 | June 27, 2023 09:00 | June 27, 2023 12:30 | 3h 30m | 829 | 2,332 |
| 8 | November 14, 2023 12:00 | November 14, 2023 15:30 | 3h 30m | 517 | 226 |
| 9 | August 7, 2023 21:45 | August 8, 2023 09:00 | 11h 15m | 468 | 620 |
| 10 | January 4, 2023 13:00 | January 4, 2023 23:30 | 10h 30m | 403 | 452 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 50 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Georgetown 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Santee Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | - | 2.4 hrs | - |
| South Carolina Public Service Authority | 2023 | 67 min | 0.85 | 47 min | 0.62 |
| City of Georgetown - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 South Carolina's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 46,010 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. Georgetown County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Georgetown County, SC 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/south-carolina/georgetown-county