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2015 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 222K customer-hours (New York average 1.6 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 62 New York counties and 978th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Rensselaer 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 12, 2015 20:30 | June 15, 2015 01:15 | 2d 4h | 3,237 | 17K |
| 2 | August 3, 2015 19:45 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 22h | 2,900 | 8,620 |
| 3 | May 11, 2015 12:15 | May 13, 2015 03:45 | 1d 15h | 2,692 | 8,015 |
| 4 | November 26, 2015 07:30 | November 26, 2015 15:00 | 7h 30m | 2,405 | 4,227 |
| 5 | May 9, 2015 14:00 | May 10, 2015 04:00 | 14h | 1,975 | 5,852 |
| 6 | April 13, 2015 19:15 | April 14, 2015 17:30 | 22h 15m | 1,923 | 11K |
| 7 | July 24, 2015 20:00 | July 25, 2015 06:45 | 10h 45m | 1,826 | 5,358 |
| 8 | March 27, 2015 01:30 | March 27, 2015 10:15 | 8h 45m | 1,752 | 7,152 |
| 9 | January 16, 2015 00:30 | January 16, 2015 02:45 | 2h 15m | 1,742 | 3,920 |
| 10 | May 8, 2015 15:45 | May 8, 2015 19:15 | 3h 30m | 1,708 | 1,016 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 102 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 Rensselaer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2015 | 2.7 hrs | 1.29 | 2.5 hrs | 1.26 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.07 | 2.1 hrs | 1.02 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
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 New York's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 80,326 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. Rensselaer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rensselaer County, NY 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/new-york/rensselaer-county