Kennebec County, Maine Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Kennebec County, Maine had 52 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.96 times the US outage time per person and 1.14 times the Maine rate. It ranks 8 of 15 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

132 hrslongest major outage

Dec, Octhardest months

December and October made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Dec 19, 2023, reached 67,325 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 95.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Maine counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	104,283	70	2
2016	558,957	120	6
2017	3,614,068	121	7
2018	340,421	133	6
2019	92,760	62	1
2020	3,295,875	149	9
2021	332,261	136	6
2022	870,639	109	8
2023	4,820,002	99	7

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Dec 19, 2023	95.8	67,325	3,235,264
Oct 30, 2017	131.8	49,159	3,069,204
Apr 9, 2020	115.0	42,773	1,517,375
Dec 18, 2023	20.8	67,586	1,202,052
Dec 5, 2020	85.0	25,320	809,397

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.