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2016 Renville County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Renville County, MN went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 1,216 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.2 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 63 Minnesota counties and 2175th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Renville County, 2016
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 17, 2016 23:00 | June 19, 2016 03:30 | 1d 4h | 297 | 247 |
| 2 | April 18, 2016 20:45 | April 19, 2016 04:00 | 7h 15m | 73 | 251 |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 01:30 | July 17, 2016 20:30 | 19h | 23 | 247 |
| 4 | August 4, 2016 14:00 | August 5, 2016 01:00 | 11h | 21 | 106 |
| 5 | May 5, 2016 15:45 | May 5, 2016 16:15 | 30m | 18 | 9 |
| 6 | July 5, 2016 23:30 | July 6, 2016 23:30 | 1d | 15 | 162 |
| 7 | March 19, 2016 13:45 | March 19, 2016 17:45 | 4h | 12 | 43 |
| 8 | June 3, 2016 08:30 | June 3, 2016 15:30 | 7h | 7 | 49 |
| 9 | June 6, 2016 15:30 | June 6, 2016 17:00 | 1h 30m | 7 | 11 |
| 10 | March 16, 2016 20:30 | March 16, 2016 23:00 | 2h 30m | 4 | 8 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Renville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.3 hrs | 0.97 | 86 min | 0.84 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2016 | 4.6 hrs | - | 32 min | - |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2016 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 | 3.0 hrs | 1.28 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 | 3.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2016 | 7.7 hrs | 0.23 | 2.4 hrs | 0.15 |
| City of Olivia - (MN) | 2016 | 9 min | 0.08 | - | - |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fairfax - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,578 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. Renville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Renville County, MN annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/minnesota/renville-county