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2018 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 718K customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 45th worst of 60 New York counties and 1284th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany 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 | July 27, 2018 11:15 | July 30, 2018 14:15 | 3d 3h | 8,524 | 93K |
| 2 | May 16, 2018 10:45 | May 17, 2018 02:15 | 15h 30m | 8,436 | 21K |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 09:30 | March 5, 2018 23:00 | 3d 13h | 6,986 | 99K |
| 4 | September 14, 2018 00:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 21h 15m | 5,766 | 2,609 |
| 5 | May 4, 2018 21:30 | May 6, 2018 22:30 | 2d 1h | 5,041 | 64K |
| 6 | September 30, 2018 08:15 | October 1, 2018 02:45 | 18h 30m | 4,019 | 19K |
| 7 | July 23, 2018 11:00 | July 27, 2018 09:00 | 3d 22h | 3,900 | 28K |
| 8 | April 25, 2018 09:00 | April 25, 2018 16:45 | 7h 45m | 3,352 | 3,834 |
| 9 | August 7, 2018 12:30 | August 11, 2018 04:30 | 3d 16h | 3,121 | 17K |
| 10 | August 1, 2018 10:45 | August 6, 2018 18:15 | 5d 7h | 3,096 | 26K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 140 reached 100+ customers, 44 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.53 | 2.5 hrs | 1.06 |
| 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 98% of New York's customers in 2018; 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, 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/new-york/albany-county