“PowerOutage.us collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available. Most states have multiple electric utilities, many small, some big. With these large numbers of companies, it can be hard to get a true overall status of the power grid in a particular area. This project collects information from over 800 Utilities into one place, with more being added all the time: Making this site the most complete source of power outage information currently available. Most utilities put few resources behind their publicly facing OMSs (Outage Management Systems). They are focused on getting their customers reconnected, as they should be. However, this means that during big outage events where many people want to know the status of the power in a particular area, the utility’s OMS can be overwhelmed if not completely unresponsive. Meanwhile PowerOutage.us stands up to heavy web traffic without faltering, allowing people directly affected by an outage event and onlookers to stay informed and up to date. In addition, no utility releases detailed historical power outage information, so we store all the information we collect; Making this project the only source of detailed historical power outage information. While this historical data is not available directly on the site, you can contact us for more information…”