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2024 Aiken County, SC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Aiken County, SC went without power for an average of 156.1 hours, a total of 12.4M customer-hours (South Carolina average 50.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 46 South Carolina counties and 62nd of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with SC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of South Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Aiken 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 | September 26, 2024 14:30 | October 18, 2024 23:30 | 22d 9h | 91,915 | 12.2M |
| 2 | July 27, 2024 14:45 | July 27, 2024 18:45 | 4h | 6,141 | 8,998 |
| 3 | November 6, 2024 17:00 | November 9, 2024 20:30 | 3d 3h | 2,539 | 5,496 |
| 4 | June 14, 2024 20:30 | June 14, 2024 21:15 | 45m | 2,340 | 1,755 |
| 5 | September 21, 2024 07:00 | September 21, 2024 13:15 | 6h 15m | 1,911 | 2,522 |
| 6 | August 29, 2024 12:15 | August 29, 2024 23:15 | 11h | 1,762 | 2,598 |
| 7 | October 25, 2024 12:00 | October 27, 2024 05:15 | 1d 17h | 1,674 | 3,506 |
| 8 | April 28, 2024 12:30 | April 28, 2024 14:30 | 2h | 1,664 | 419 |
| 9 | July 16, 2024 00:45 | July 17, 2024 01:45 | 1d 1h | 1,614 | 5,219 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 13:30 | January 10, 2024 17:00 | 1d 3h | 1,509 | 5,558 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 105 reached 100+ customers, 18 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Aiken 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc | 2024 | 31.8 hrs | 2.52 | 81 min | 1.19 |
| Aiken Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 132.4 hrs | - | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Mid-Carolina Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 65.3 hrs | 3.22 | 2.0 hrs | 1.62 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 79,309 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. Aiken County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Aiken County, SC 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/south-carolina/aiken-county