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2017 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 5.9 hours, a total of 471K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 62 New York counties and 864th 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 Rensselaer 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 | May 5, 2017 15:15 | May 8, 2017 06:30 | 2d 15h | 14,546 | 135K |
| 2 | June 9, 2017 17:00 | June 10, 2017 03:30 | 10h 30m | 6,391 | 13K |
| 3 | March 8, 2017 11:45 | March 9, 2017 10:00 | 22h 15m | 6,239 | 16K |
| 4 | March 14, 2017 08:00 | March 14, 2017 09:30 | 1h 30m | 5,472 | 5,591 |
| 5 | March 11, 2017 01:45 | March 11, 2017 08:30 | 6h 45m | 5,465 | 9,195 |
| 6 | May 18, 2017 15:15 | May 21, 2017 02:45 | 2d 11h | 4,578 | 61K |
| 7 | March 7, 2017 20:00 | March 8, 2017 03:30 | 7h 30m | 3,340 | 6,284 |
| 8 | October 29, 2017 18:15 | November 1, 2017 04:30 | 2d 10h | 3,222 | 45K |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 05:00 | March 3, 2017 22:00 | 1d 17h | 2,996 | 8,849 |
| 10 | June 30, 2017 19:15 | July 3, 2017 16:00 | 2d 20h | 2,790 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 100 reached 100+ customers, 26 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2017 | 5.8 hrs | 1.41 | 2.2 hrs | 1.03 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/rensselaer-county