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2023 Laurens County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Laurens County, SC went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.7 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 2228th 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 Laurens 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 | April 30, 2023 16:30 | May 1, 2023 09:15 | 16h 45m | 4,340 | 6,447 |
| 2 | April 9, 2023 15:00 | April 9, 2023 23:45 | 8h 45m | 4,335 | 5,799 |
| 3 | August 7, 2023 21:15 | August 8, 2023 11:00 | 13h 45m | 3,803 | 7,454 |
| 4 | September 6, 2023 17:00 | September 6, 2023 23:45 | 6h 45m | 2,745 | 1,339 |
| 5 | June 9, 2023 02:15 | June 9, 2023 06:15 | 4h | 2,313 | 5,209 |
| 6 | January 12, 2023 21:15 | January 13, 2023 20:00 | 22h 45m | 2,174 | 8,425 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 09:15 | April 3, 2023 14:30 | 2d 5h | 2,147 | 11K |
| 8 | February 12, 2023 00:00 | February 13, 2023 14:00 | 1d 14h | 2,140 | 6,347 |
| 9 | July 13, 2023 18:30 | July 13, 2023 20:45 | 2h 15m | 2,061 | 1,189 |
| 10 | July 3, 2023 08:15 | July 3, 2023 21:15 | 13h | 1,896 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 66 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Laurens 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.3 hrs | 1.31 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| Clinton Combined Utility Sys | 2013 | 50 min | 0.87 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Laurens - (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 ÷ 71,549 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. Laurens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Laurens 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/laurens-county