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2019 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 408K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 62 New York counties and 1081st 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 Rensselaer 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 | March 4, 2019 02:30 | March 4, 2019 16:45 | 14h 15m | 5,923 | 25K |
| 2 | February 25, 2019 14:15 | February 27, 2019 00:15 | 1d 10h | 5,157 | 35K |
| 3 | August 16, 2019 02:00 | August 19, 2019 18:45 | 3d 16h | 4,977 | 40K |
| 4 | January 1, 2019 12:45 | January 2, 2019 02:00 | 13h 15m | 4,921 | 25K |
| 5 | August 21, 2019 11:15 | August 23, 2019 15:45 | 2d 4h | 4,755 | 18K |
| 6 | October 31, 2019 19:00 | November 4, 2019 03:30 | 3d 8h | 4,062 | 52K |
| 7 | May 20, 2019 14:15 | May 22, 2019 14:45 | 2d | 3,986 | 22K |
| 8 | June 26, 2019 23:45 | June 27, 2019 17:15 | 17h 30m | 3,413 | 21K |
| 9 | July 6, 2019 17:00 | July 8, 2019 00:45 | 1d 7h | 2,725 | 15K |
| 10 | September 10, 2019 17:00 | September 10, 2019 21:30 | 4h 30m | 2,462 | 1,238 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 87 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Rensselaer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; 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, 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/rensselaer-county