blackout tracker overview
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Blackout Tracker: Background & Overview
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Overview
• How do we collect the data? The vast majority of outage reports are picked up through media reports. Google Alerts is monitored daily and entered into a database that feeds the tracker. We also get outage reports submitted through the tracker
• Do we catch every outage? No. We catch the main ones but not every outage is reported. For example, many outages happen within private buildings/institutions that don’t report them.
• Purpose of the tracker? It’s to bring attention to the often unpredictable causes and timing of power outages.
• Do we make data available? Yes, we can provide it in Microsoft Excel format.
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Outage information displayed
Location, cause
category,
description for
each outage
Duration and
number of people
affected
Cause type color
key
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View by region, state
View by region
and by state
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United States
Data collection
started in Feb. 2008
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Canada
Data collection
started in April 2008
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United Kingdom & Ireland
Data collection
started in Jan. 2010
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Australia & New Zealand
Data collection
started in Jan. 2009
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DACH region
Data collection
started in Aug. 2013
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France
Data collection
started in Aug. 2013
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Annual reports
We create annual reports for
the US, Canada, UK/Ireland,
Australia/NZ, France and
DACH.
Typically available in February.
See the 2015 report
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Annual report content
Introduction / Commentary National Data State/Province Data
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Other interesting outage information
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PR contacts
• Sam Rinderman, Largemouth Communications
o: 919.459.6462 m: 704.840.2822
• Kelly Propst, Largemouth Communications
o: 919.459.6453 m: 919.395.7345
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