Patent ID: 7551984

Claim:
A method for tracking power outages, the method comprising the steps of: receiving information that at least one power outage has occurred; relaying the information regarding the at least one power outage to a database; determining at least one circuit affected by the at least one power outage; determining a number of customers associated with the at least one circuit; and, creating an individual outage record for each associated customer; creating an indicator based on an expectation scale, wherein creating an indicator scale further comprises the steps of: analyzing power outages for each associated customer; comparing the number of power outages for each associated customer with an expected number of power outages; and, creating at least two indicators, wherein one of the at least two indicators indicates that the number of power outages is at or exceeds the number of expected power outages, wherein one of the at least two indicators indicates that the number of power outages is below the expected number of power outages.