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2018 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 6.5 hours, a total of 525K customer-hours (New York average 7.4 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 60 New York counties and 836th 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 Rensselaer 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 10:15 | July 29, 2018 15:45 | 2d 5h | 10,262 | 46K |
| 2 | July 10, 2018 11:45 | July 10, 2018 20:15 | 8h 30m | 8,447 | 5,622 |
| 3 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 9, 2018 11:30 | 3d 8h | 6,798 | 39K |
| 4 | June 9, 2018 11:45 | June 9, 2018 21:30 | 9h 45m | 6,060 | 13K |
| 5 | August 3, 2018 17:45 | August 9, 2018 06:45 | 5d 13h | 5,861 | 69K |
| 6 | March 2, 2018 10:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 15h | 5,437 | 89K |
| 7 | May 8, 2018 16:45 | May 8, 2018 21:45 | 5h | 3,698 | 10K |
| 8 | July 6, 2018 04:30 | July 6, 2018 16:00 | 11h 30m | 3,261 | 5,176 |
| 9 | July 6, 2018 17:45 | July 7, 2018 01:15 | 7h 30m | 3,241 | 1,664 |
| 10 | November 9, 2018 13:30 | November 10, 2018 04:15 | 14h 45m | 3,063 | 1,829 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 107 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2018 | 6.6 hrs | 1.53 | 2.5 hrs | 1.06 |
| 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 98% of New York's customers in 2018; 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, 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/rensselaer-county