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2024 Monterey County, CA Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Monterey County, CA went without power for an average of 19.1 hours, a total of 3.7M customer-hours (California average 6.1 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 57 California counties and 527th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with CA, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of California customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Monterey County, 2024
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 11, 2024 15:30 | December 23, 2024 09:00 | 11d 17h | 41,884 | 1.2M |
| 2 | February 3, 2024 05:45 | February 20, 2024 09:45 | 17d 4h | 37,981 | 1.6M |
| 3 | September 1, 2024 05:00 | September 2, 2024 03:00 | 22h | 9,171 | 4,839 |
| 4 | November 2, 2024 14:30 | November 10, 2024 00:15 | 7d 9h | 8,663 | 57K |
| 5 | September 10, 2024 15:15 | September 12, 2024 12:45 | 1d 21h | 8,549 | 9,087 |
| 6 | September 19, 2024 10:00 | September 24, 2024 09:15 | 4d 23h | 8,538 | 45K |
| 7 | August 15, 2024 12:45 | August 23, 2024 06:00 | 7d 17h | 7,020 | 26K |
| 8 | June 5, 2024 13:45 | June 7, 2024 10:30 | 1d 20h | 6,955 | 7,559 |
| 9 | May 1, 2024 14:45 | May 3, 2024 11:45 | 1d 21h | 6,464 | 2,945 |
| 10 | May 7, 2024 14:15 | May 14, 2024 11:30 | 6d 21h | 5,689 | 37K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 136 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Monterey County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Gas & Electric Co. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 2.15 | 4.6 hrs | 1.82 |
| Central Coast Community Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 California's customers in 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 195,575 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. Monterey County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monterey County, CA annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/california/monterey-county