County annual report · FIPS 36001
2016 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 376K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 62 New York counties and 1326th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany 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 | March 6, 2016 12:00 | March 6, 2016 23:15 | 11h 15m | 11,685 | 47K |
| 2 | February 12, 2016 09:30 | February 13, 2016 02:30 | 17h | 7,086 | 12K |
| 3 | November 30, 2016 19:15 | December 2, 2016 02:15 | 1d 7h | 4,566 | 5,971 |
| 4 | June 26, 2016 10:00 | June 27, 2016 01:15 | 15h 15m | 4,048 | 8,905 |
| 5 | August 28, 2016 07:30 | August 28, 2016 10:45 | 3h 15m | 3,584 | 6,512 |
| 6 | December 15, 2016 23:00 | December 16, 2016 20:30 | 21h 30m | 3,464 | 12K |
| 7 | July 5, 2016 09:45 | July 6, 2016 18:00 | 1d 8h | 3,416 | 5,420 |
| 8 | May 16, 2016 14:30 | May 17, 2016 10:00 | 19h 30m | 3,162 | 3,663 |
| 9 | July 4, 2016 22:15 | July 5, 2016 05:00 | 6h 45m | 3,155 | 7,019 |
| 10 | May 28, 2016 16:00 | June 1, 2016 14:15 | 3d 22h | 2,892 | 9,915 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 126 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Albany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.19 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| Village of Green Island - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 185,574 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. Albany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albany County, NY 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/new-york/albany-county