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Utility Outage Information

Name: Utility Outage Information
Published: 2015-08-28
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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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.

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TY  - DATA
AB  - 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.
AU  - Weers, Jon
DB  - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP  - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO  - 
KW  - electricity
KW  - facebook
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KW  - mapathon
KW  - outage
KW  - providers
KW  - red cross
KW  - twitter
KW  - utility
KW  - weather channel
KW  - white house
KW  - data
KW  - processed data
KW  - power company
LA  - English
DA  - 2015/08/28
PY  - 2015
PB  - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1  - Utility Outage Information
UR  - https://data.openei.org/submissions/460
ER  -

Export Citation to RIS

Weers, Jon. Utility Outage Information. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 28 August, 2015, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/460.

Weers, J. (2015). Utility Outage Information. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.openei.org/submissions/460

Weers, Jon. Utility Outage Information. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, August, 28, 2015.  Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/460

@misc{OEDI_Dataset_460,
title = {Utility Outage Information},
author = {Weers, Jon},
abstractNote = {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.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/460},
year = {2015},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.openei.org/submissions/460},
note = {Accessed: 2025-10-08}
}

Details

Data from Aug 28, 2015

Last updated Oct 8, 2025

Submitted Aug 28, 2015

Organization

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Contact

Jon Weers

Authors

Jon Weers

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Research Areas

Energy Systems Integration

Keywords

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

DOE Project Details

Project Name Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)

Project Number 38443