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2019 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 774K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 35th worst of 62 New York counties and 1289th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany County, 2019
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 1, 2019 09:45 | January 2, 2019 02:45 | 17h | 12,085 | 48K |
| 2 | August 16, 2019 05:15 | August 20, 2019 02:00 | 3d 20h | 11,679 | 172K |
| 3 | February 25, 2019 13:45 | February 28, 2019 01:30 | 2d 11h | 11,086 | 69K |
| 4 | June 30, 2019 03:15 | July 2, 2019 02:45 | 1d 23h | 8,849 | 41K |
| 5 | March 19, 2019 14:15 | March 19, 2019 23:00 | 8h 45m | 6,406 | 6,889 |
| 6 | April 19, 2019 16:00 | April 21, 2019 07:00 | 1d 15h | 6,375 | 28K |
| 7 | January 6, 2019 21:15 | January 7, 2019 05:30 | 8h 15m | 4,818 | 13K |
| 8 | September 24, 2019 00:30 | September 24, 2019 09:15 | 8h 45m | 4,746 | 8,883 |
| 9 | August 7, 2019 12:45 | August 10, 2019 04:30 | 2d 15h | 4,667 | 23K |
| 10 | October 31, 2019 21:45 | November 4, 2019 03:45 | 3d 6h | 4,325 | 54K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 164 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/new-york/albany-county