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2018 Renville County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Renville County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 7,284 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 69 Minnesota counties and 2271st of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Renville County, 2018
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 4, 2018 11:00 | January 4, 2018 13:30 | 2h 30m | 1,186 | 1,744 |
| 2 | May 24, 2018 21:45 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 1h 30m | 1,070 | 1,339 |
| 3 | September 17, 2018 15:30 | September 17, 2018 22:15 | 6h 45m | 700 | 538 |
| 4 | February 7, 2018 16:30 | February 7, 2018 17:30 | 1h | 687 | 516 |
| 5 | May 26, 2018 22:45 | May 27, 2018 08:45 | 10h | 675 | 410 |
| 6 | September 15, 2018 13:45 | September 15, 2018 14:45 | 1h | 300 | 300 |
| 7 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 6, 2018 07:00 | 3h 45m | 283 | 321 |
| 8 | July 20, 2018 03:15 | July 20, 2018 06:30 | 3h 15m | 111 | 358 |
| 9 | June 18, 2018 09:45 | June 18, 2018 14:00 | 4h 15m | 89 | 287 |
| 10 | June 22, 2018 01:30 | June 22, 2018 04:45 | 3h 15m | 87 | 218 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 8 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 90 min | 0.73 | 69 min | 0.62 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2018 | 1.8 hrs | - | 38 min | - |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2018 | 1.5 hrs | 1.44 | 69 min | 1.32 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| City of Olivia - (MN) | 2018 | 5 min | 0.09 | 5 min | 0.09 |
| 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 71% of Minnesota's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/minnesota/renville-county