Data on major power outage events in the continental U.S

Sayanti Mukherjee; Roshanak Nateghi; Makarand Hastak

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.067

Data on major power outage events in the continental U.S

Data Brief. 2018 Jun 26:19:2079-2083. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.06.067. eCollection 2018 Aug.

Authors

Sayanti Mukherjee¹, Roshanak Nateghi², Makarand Hastak³

Affiliations

¹ Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Division of Construction Engineering and Management, and School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
² School of Industrial Engineering and Division of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
³ Lyles School of Civil Engineering and Division of Construction Engineering and Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

Abstract

This paper presents the data that is used in the article entitled "A Multi-Hazard Approach to Assess Severe Weather-Induced Major Power Outage Risks in the U.S." (Mukherjee et al., 2018) [1]. The data described in this article pertains to the major outages witnessed by different states in the continental U.S. during January 2000-July 2016. As defined by the Department of Energy, the major outages refer to those that impacted atleast 50,000 customers or caused an unplanned firm load loss of atleast 300 MW. Besides major outage data, this article also presents data on geographical location of the outages, date and time of the outages, regional climatic information, land-use characteristics, electricity consumption patterns and economic characteristics of the states affected by the outages. This dataset can be used to identify and analyze the historical trends and patterns of the major outages and identify and assess the risk predictors associated with sustained power outages in the continental U.S. as described in Mukherjee et al. [1].