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Median Power Outage Duration in the US
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To find information on the median power outage duration in the United States excluding major natural events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tornadoes.
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Median Power Outage
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has data that contains the major disturbances and unusual occurrences that led to power outages in
2020
and
2019.
The data for 2020 is for the months of
January to June
and the median for the available data will be determined using the data shown below:
2020
The major disturbances and unusual occurrences table for
2020
contains a column for the month of occurrence and duration of the outage. This data in this table for various months was summed up to determine the total duration of outage for each month so as to find the median power outage duration as shown below:
January
- 11 mins + 12 mins + 5hrs 31 mins + 14 hrs + 24 hrs 43 mins + 2 hrs 59 mins + 4 hrs 45 mins + 1 hr 35 mins
February
- 30 hrs 38 mins + 22 hrs 15 mins + 66 hrs 43 mins +19 hrs 35 mins + 12 hr 10 mins + 8 hrs 47 mins
March
- 10 hrs 20 mins + 1 hr 57 mins + 1 hr 9 mins + 3 hrs 55 mins + 18 mins + 2 hrs 37 mins + 8 hrs 15 mins
April
- 1 hr 6 mins + 1 hr 49 mins + 7 mins + 2 hrs 35 mins + 11 hrs 2 mins + 9 hrs 33 mins + 8 hrs 5 mins + 50 hrs 20 mins + 18 mins + 32 hrs 25 mins + 21 hrs 10 mins + 36 hrs 30 minutes + 62 hrs 32 mins + 2 hrs 15 mins + 38 hrs 48 mins + 6 hrs 29 mins + 8 hrs 30 mins + 26 hrs 55 mins + 7 hrs 41 mins + 2 hrs 30 mins + 15hrs 40 mins + 33 mins + 3 hrs 20 mins + 13 hrs 5 minutes + 6 hrs 31 mins
May
- 80 hrs 1 min + 8 hrs 55 minutes +48 hrs 5 mins + 22 hrs 54 mins + 2 hrs 2 mins + 37 hrs 15 mins + 1 hr 56 mins
June
- 5 hrs 30 mins + 75 hrs 30 mins + 2 hrs 54 mins +40 mins + 4 hrs 38 mins + 24 hrs 36 mins + 10 hrs 27 mins + 2 hrs 3 mins
The calculations and mean from the above figures can be accessed in the
attached spreadsheet
.
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