About This Site
In January 2024, thousands of Portland General Electric customers lost power due to winter storms. I was without power for over 4 days.
Local cell towers were overloaded, making Internet connectivity slow and unreliable. PGE's heavy website often took minutes to load, if it even loaded at all, so it was difficult to get information about the status of the outages.
I found this so frustrating that I decided to build a simple website that would load quickly and provide accurate, up to date information about PGE power outages.
This site uses the same data PGE's site uses, but without any unnecessary JavaScript, images, trackers, or other bloat. It's designed to load quickly even on slow connections, to be accessible, and to work well on mobile devices.
I hope you find it useful!
Credits
Outage data comes from Portland General Electric. The favicon was created by Freepik at Flaticon