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Utility Outage Information

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
10 October 2015
Modified Date
10 October 2015
Publishers
Department of Energy
Keywords
facebook, mapathon, outage, red-cross, twitter, utility, weather-channel, white-house
Identifier
utility-outage-information
Landing Page
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/utility-outage-information
Maintainers
Jay Huggins jay.huggins@nrel.gov

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Description

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 a [White House Mapathon](http://mapgive.state.gov/whmapathon/) the Department of Energy's [Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability](http://energy.gov/oe/office-electricity-delivery-and-energy-reliability) created a national geospatial database of power company service areas with pointers to public outage information (eg, Twitter, web sites, and via 800 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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