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2017 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 0.2 hours, a total of 242 customer-hours (North Dakota average 0.9 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 34 North Dakota counties and 2491st of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Golden Valley 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 16, 2017 02:00 | May 16, 2017 09:15 | 7h 15m | 690 | 188 |
| 2 | November 23, 2017 10:30 | November 23, 2017 10:45 | 15m | 61 | 15 |
| 3 | April 20, 2017 16:45 | April 20, 2017 17:45 | 1h | 6 | 6 |
| 4 | April 21, 2017 03:15 | April 21, 2017 03:45 | 30m | 6 | 3 |
| 5 | July 2, 2017 23:45 | July 3, 2017 00:30 | 45m | 6 | 2 |
| 6 | July 19, 2017 09:45 | July 19, 2017 13:15 | 3h 30m | 6 | 11 |
| 7 | November 23, 2017 14:00 | November 23, 2017 14:15 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 8 | May 8, 2017 07:45 | May 8, 2017 08:15 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 9 | August 21, 2017 06:30 | August 21, 2017 07:00 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
| 10 | October 4, 2017 18:30 | October 4, 2017 19:00 | 30m | 4 | 2 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Golden Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 4.0 hrs | 1.52 | 2.5 hrs | 1.19 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 North Dakota's customers in 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 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. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley County, ND 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/north-dakota/golden-valley-county