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In-brief analysis
December 1, 2025
U.S. electricity customers experienced an average of 11 hours of electricity interruptions in 2024, or nearly twice as many as the annual average experienced in the decade before, according to our Electric Power Annual 2024 report. Major events such as Hurricanes Beryl, Helene, and Milton accounted for 80% of the hours without electricity in 2024.
Utilities categorize interruptions depending on if they are attributed to major events such as hurricanes or other storms, interference from vegetation near power lines, or atypical utility operations. When comparing outages across years, most of the differences in total time without service are attributed to major events.
Interruptions attributed to major events averaged nearly nine hours in 2024, compared with an average of nearly four hours per year in 2014 through 2023. Service interruptions that aren’t
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