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2017 Renville County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Renville County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 9,978 customer-hours (Minnesota average 1.9 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 65 Minnesota counties and 1818th 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 Renville 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 | August 24, 2017 18:15 | August 24, 2017 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,761 | 1,334 |
| 2 | August 24, 2017 21:45 | August 24, 2017 22:00 | 15m | 1,378 | 345 |
| 3 | August 26, 2017 02:30 | August 26, 2017 04:00 | 1h 30m | 1,065 | 1,334 |
| 4 | September 16, 2017 19:15 | September 16, 2017 23:30 | 4h 15m | 965 | 3,438 |
| 5 | May 10, 2017 17:45 | May 10, 2017 19:15 | 1h 30m | 368 | 552 |
| 6 | August 17, 2017 05:30 | August 17, 2017 21:30 | 16h | 315 | 1,455 |
| 7 | October 31, 2017 19:45 | October 31, 2017 21:45 | 2h | 69 | 115 |
| 8 | July 19, 2017 01:30 | July 19, 2017 03:00 | 1h 30m | 49 | 50 |
| 9 | October 16, 2017 06:45 | October 16, 2017 20:30 | 13h 45m | 38 | 478 |
| 10 | June 11, 2017 12:30 | June 12, 2017 23:15 | 1d 10h | 37 | 379 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 6 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | - | 51 min | - |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2017 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 | 2.6 hrs | 1.77 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2017 | 5.3 hrs | 2.24 | 57 min | 1.64 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2017 | 68 min | 0.62 | 68 min | 0.62 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/renville-county