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2023 Newberry County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Newberry County, SC went without power for an average of 13.3 hours, a total of 310K customer-hours (South Carolina average 2.7 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 649th 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 Newberry 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 4, 2023 01:15 | March 7, 2023 17:00 | 3d 15h | 3,005 | 7,640 |
| 2 | December 10, 2023 15:15 | December 11, 2023 15:30 | 1d | 1,541 | 2,936 |
| 3 | August 7, 2023 21:45 | August 8, 2023 16:15 | 18h 30m | 1,531 | 3,517 |
| 4 | August 26, 2023 13:30 | August 28, 2023 15:30 | 2d 2h | 1,287 | 7,707 |
| 5 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | September 18, 2023 14:45 | 18h 30m | 1,140 | 19K |
| 6 | September 7, 2023 21:30 | September 8, 2023 03:00 | 5h 30m | 1,139 | 1,714 |
| 7 | June 21, 2023 00:30 | June 21, 2023 20:45 | 20h 15m | 990 | 4,002 |
| 8 | December 18, 2023 18:30 | December 18, 2023 21:00 | 2h 30m | 937 | 2,239 |
| 9 | January 19, 2023 18:45 | January 19, 2023 19:15 | 30m | 913 | 324 |
| 10 | June 6, 2023 07:30 | June 6, 2023 12:45 | 5h 15m | 881 | 4,355 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 67 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 Newberry 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 |
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.48 | 90 min | 1.32 |
| Laurens Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.3 hrs | 1.31 | 1.9 hrs | 1.18 |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 2.3 hrs | 1.63 | 2.0 hrs | 1.45 |
| Newberry Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 2.6 hrs | - | 2.6 hrs | - |
| Broad River Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Newberry - (SC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Prosperity - (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 ÷ 23,376 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. Newberry County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newberry 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/newberry-county