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2016 Schenectady County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Schenectady County, NY went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 233K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 62 New York counties and 1004th 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 Schenectady 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 | April 7, 2016 18:15 | April 9, 2016 05:45 | 1d 11h | 7,037 | 38K |
| 2 | July 1, 2016 20:30 | July 3, 2016 06:45 | 1d 10h | 5,754 | 21K |
| 3 | July 7, 2016 11:45 | July 7, 2016 21:45 | 10h | 5,520 | 4,276 |
| 4 | March 29, 2016 03:45 | March 29, 2016 06:00 | 2h 15m | 4,796 | 4,797 |
| 5 | June 18, 2016 11:15 | June 19, 2016 00:00 | 12h 45m | 4,527 | 11K |
| 6 | June 17, 2016 13:15 | June 17, 2016 16:00 | 2h 45m | 4,525 | 3,398 |
| 7 | December 10, 2016 07:15 | December 10, 2016 09:45 | 2h 30m | 4,473 | 9,626 |
| 8 | September 1, 2016 21:15 | September 2, 2016 09:30 | 12h 15m | 3,969 | 7,518 |
| 9 | July 28, 2016 01:15 | July 28, 2016 02:30 | 1h 15m | 3,634 | 3,588 |
| 10 | July 29, 2016 09:15 | July 29, 2016 12:30 | 3h 15m | 3,526 | 5,824 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 Schenectady 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 |
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 ÷ 78,627 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. Schenectady County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Schenectady 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/schenectady-county