Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Merrick's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
Merrick, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
No outage reached 1% of customers in the record.
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Merrick
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Nebraska territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk County Rural Pub Pwr Dist | NE | 91 | 72 | 1.06 | 11.3 | 44k |
| City of Grand Island | Municipal | 37 | 9 | 1.00 | 10.3 | 23k |
| City of Central City | NE | – | – | – | 10.4 | 18k |
| Southern Public Power District | Political Subdivision | – | – | – | 9.1 | 15k |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | Federal | – | – | – | – | – |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Hamilton 2.3 h
- Merrick (this county) – h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 3,869 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →