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2015 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 8,825 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.7 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 68 Minnesota counties and 2015th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nicollet County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 22, 2015 12:45 | June 22, 2015 20:00 | 7h 15m | 1,170 | 641 |
| 2 | July 18, 2015 05:15 | July 19, 2015 01:30 | 20h 15m | 523 | 5,109 |
| 3 | May 30, 2015 05:45 | May 30, 2015 12:30 | 6h 45m | 284 | 1,634 |
| 4 | July 1, 2015 12:15 | July 1, 2015 14:15 | 2h | 83 | 145 |
| 5 | July 18, 2015 00:15 | July 18, 2015 00:30 | 15m | 77 | 19 |
| 6 | June 25, 2015 02:00 | June 25, 2015 04:00 | 2h | 69 | 138 |
| 7 | July 25, 2015 18:15 | July 25, 2015 21:15 | 3h | 53 | 135 |
| 8 | October 22, 2015 12:30 | October 22, 2015 20:00 | 7h 30m | 53 | 304 |
| 9 | September 5, 2015 12:45 | September 5, 2015 14:30 | 1h 45m | 52 | 80 |
| 10 | August 7, 2015 02:00 | August 7, 2015 07:45 | 5h 45m | 37 | 136 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 3 reached 100+ customers, 1 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Nicollet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2015 | 2.1 hrs | 0.88 | 82 min | 0.81 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2015 | 32 min | 0.04 | 32 min | 0.04 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,048 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet County, MN annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/minnesota/nicollet-county