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2017 Schenectady County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Schenectady County, NY went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 284K customer-hours (New York average 3.9 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 62 New York counties and 1181st 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 Schenectady 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 | October 6, 2017 14:30 | October 6, 2017 18:15 | 3h 45m | 8,228 | 14K |
| 2 | May 18, 2017 20:15 | May 21, 2017 01:15 | 2d 5h | 4,780 | 46K |
| 3 | August 22, 2017 19:30 | August 24, 2017 19:00 | 1d 23h | 4,314 | 26K |
| 4 | July 20, 2017 14:45 | July 20, 2017 20:15 | 5h 30m | 4,247 | 5,255 |
| 5 | November 19, 2017 06:00 | November 20, 2017 05:00 | 23h | 3,665 | 29K |
| 6 | March 19, 2017 08:00 | March 19, 2017 10:15 | 2h 15m | 3,270 | 3,273 |
| 7 | January 6, 2017 19:45 | January 6, 2017 21:00 | 1h 15m | 3,251 | 2,446 |
| 8 | August 13, 2017 10:15 | August 14, 2017 07:15 | 21h | 2,926 | 2,640 |
| 9 | September 3, 2017 14:30 | September 3, 2017 16:00 | 1h 30m | 2,678 | 3,348 |
| 10 | March 28, 2017 06:45 | March 29, 2017 21:00 | 1d 14h | 2,622 | 2,575 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 75 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 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 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/schenectady-county