Data: Explore 15 Years Of Power Outages by Jordan Wirfs-Brock.
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This database details 15 years of power outages across the United States, compiled and standardized from annual data available at from the Department of Energy.
For an explanation of what it means, how it came about, and how we got here, listen to this conversation between Inside Energy Reporter Dan Boyce and Data Journalist Jordan Wirfs-Brock:
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You can also view the data as a Google Spreadsheet (where you can download it as a CSV). This version of the database also includes information about the amount of time it took power to be restored, the demand loss in megawatts, the NERC region, (NERC refers to the North American Electricity Reliability Corporation, formed to ensure the reliability of the grid) and a list of standardized tags.
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The data set isn’t useful for tactical information, the submissions are too general to replicate the events leading up to an outage.
On the other hand, identifiable outage events, dates, locations, etc., do make recovery of tactical data from grid literature a manageable search problem.
Enjoy!