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2017 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 6,929 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 2315th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nicollet County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 6, 2017 13:15 | July 6, 2017 18:45 | 5h 30m | 1,036 | 2,323 |
| 2 | June 13, 2017 16:30 | June 13, 2017 22:15 | 5h 45m | 218 | 844 |
| 3 | June 25, 2017 06:30 | June 25, 2017 11:45 | 5h 15m | 179 | 585 |
| 4 | October 5, 2017 19:15 | October 6, 2017 00:00 | 4h 45m | 148 | 115 |
| 5 | June 7, 2017 22:45 | June 8, 2017 02:00 | 3h 15m | 126 | 410 |
| 6 | September 11, 2017 08:15 | September 11, 2017 13:45 | 5h 30m | 126 | 415 |
| 7 | December 15, 2017 16:15 | December 15, 2017 17:00 | 45m | 83 | 62 |
| 8 | September 18, 2017 21:15 | September 19, 2017 00:45 | 3h 30m | 54 | 176 |
| 9 | July 10, 2017 02:30 | July 10, 2017 21:45 | 19h 15m | 52 | 365 |
| 10 | October 2, 2017 06:00 | October 2, 2017 14:15 | 8h 15m | 52 | 194 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicollet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 0.73 | 58 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2017 | 68 min | 0.62 | 68 min | 0.62 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | - | - | - | - | - |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet County, MN annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/minnesota/nicollet-county