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2017 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 442K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1519th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany 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 | January 17, 2017 22:15 | January 18, 2017 04:45 | 6h 30m | 6,183 | 3,728 |
| 2 | October 6, 2017 14:00 | October 7, 2017 06:45 | 16h 45m | 6,003 | 12K |
| 3 | May 18, 2017 14:00 | May 21, 2017 13:15 | 2d 23h | 4,591 | 65K |
| 4 | June 11, 2017 12:45 | June 13, 2017 07:00 | 1d 18h | 3,714 | 19K |
| 5 | August 22, 2017 16:30 | August 25, 2017 09:45 | 2d 17h | 3,704 | 26K |
| 6 | October 29, 2017 20:45 | November 1, 2017 00:30 | 2d 3h | 3,511 | 23K |
| 7 | June 5, 2017 20:00 | June 6, 2017 01:30 | 5h 30m | 3,157 | 2,001 |
| 8 | September 18, 2017 10:45 | September 18, 2017 13:15 | 2h 30m | 3,116 | 1,584 |
| 9 | November 30, 2017 15:30 | December 1, 2017 09:30 | 18h | 2,804 | 7,504 |
| 10 | September 11, 2017 05:00 | September 11, 2017 14:15 | 9h 15m | 2,653 | 3,177 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 141 reached 100+ customers, 38 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 Albany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.41 | 2.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/new-york/albany-county