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2016 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 301K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 62 New York counties and 834th 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 Rensselaer 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 | November 20, 2016 11:00 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 1d 1h | 7,770 | 76K |
| 2 | August 11, 2016 19:00 | August 11, 2016 19:15 | 15m | 5,745 | 1,436 |
| 3 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 16, 2016 04:30 | 3d 7h | 5,301 | 45K |
| 4 | May 15, 2016 16:45 | May 15, 2016 22:45 | 6h | 4,836 | 3,378 |
| 5 | May 27, 2016 22:30 | May 29, 2016 08:00 | 1d 9h | 3,301 | 9,078 |
| 6 | October 1, 2016 18:45 | October 1, 2016 20:15 | 1h 30m | 3,213 | 4,017 |
| 7 | August 18, 2016 14:45 | August 19, 2016 18:15 | 1d 3h | 3,060 | 3,635 |
| 8 | May 24, 2016 13:30 | May 24, 2016 20:45 | 7h 15m | 2,186 | 6,415 |
| 9 | July 29, 2016 12:45 | July 29, 2016 13:45 | 1h | 2,147 | 1,612 |
| 10 | November 21, 2016 14:00 | November 23, 2016 21:15 | 2d 7h | 1,897 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 84 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2016 | 2.9 hrs | 1.19 | 2.2 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/rensselaer-county