Utility Outage Information

Description

Data about power company service areas and their announcements about outages are critical for the effective coordination of resources after disasters, and also for building community and neighborhood resilience. As part of the 2015 White House Mapathon, the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity created a national geospatial database of power company service areas with pointers to public outage information (eg, through Twitter, web sites, and toll-free telephone numbers). Mapathon participants researched public outage information state by state, and populated a lookup table so that disaster-impacted residents, tourists, first responders and relief volunteers can easily get to the information they need on scope and estimated restore times for power outages. This project benefited from participation of private and public sector folks who need this data for their work, and of third party app developers such as Red Cross and The Weather Channel who will incorporate this data into the information services they offer their users.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 An export of OpenEI utility information as of 2015-08-28. Columns are Utility Company, EIA Utility Id, Twitter Handle, Facebook Page, Outage Phone Number, Outage Map URL, Phone Number, and Web Site. Current information can be accessed at the "Outage Data on OpenEI" link. https://data.openei.org/files/460/openeiutilitycompanyinfo.csv
21 The Form EIA-861 and Form EIA-861S (Short Form) data files include information such as peak load, generation, electric purchases, sales, revenues, customer counts and demand-side management programs, green pricing and net metering programs, and distributed generation capacity. http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/
53 The Service_Territory_2013.xls file comes from the EIA-861 2013 dataset and identifies EIA utility ids, the utility name, and the state and county served. https://data.openei.org/files/460/serviceterritory2013.xls
21 OpenEI wiki page with outage data to search. https://en.openei.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAsk&q=%5B%5BCategory%3AEIA+Utility+Companies+and+Aliases%5D%5D&po=EiaUtilityId%0D%0ATwitterHandle%0D%0AFacebookPage%0D%0AOutagePhoneNumber%0D%0AOutageMapURL%0D%0APhoneNumber%0D%0AWebsite%0D%0A&p%5Bformat%5D=broadtable

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  • data
  • processed-data
  • outage
  • utility
  • electricity
  • white-house
  • providers
  • weather-channel
  • twitter
  • information
  • power-company
  • red-cross
  • facebook
  • mapathon

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