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2019 Schenectady County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Schenectady County, NY went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 342K customer-hours (New York average 3.0 hours). That ranks 33rd worst of 62 New York counties and 1238th 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 Schenectady 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 19, 2019 13:15 | March 19, 2019 21:00 | 7h 45m | 7,242 | 10K |
| 2 | November 19, 2019 11:15 | November 20, 2019 01:45 | 14h 30m | 6,320 | 8,447 |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 19:30 | November 4, 2019 17:45 | 3d 22h | 5,007 | 98K |
| 4 | January 1, 2019 12:15 | January 2, 2019 03:45 | 15h 30m | 4,380 | 28K |
| 5 | August 16, 2019 08:00 | August 20, 2019 04:30 | 3d 20h | 3,819 | 51K |
| 6 | March 10, 2019 21:15 | March 11, 2019 07:15 | 10h | 3,232 | 6,859 |
| 7 | April 11, 2019 18:00 | April 11, 2019 19:00 | 1h | 2,883 | 1,455 |
| 8 | April 4, 2019 11:30 | April 4, 2019 20:15 | 8h 45m | 2,713 | 714 |
| 9 | June 27, 2019 18:30 | June 27, 2019 20:45 | 2h 15m | 2,415 | 3,068 |
| 10 | February 25, 2019 13:15 | February 26, 2019 21:00 | 1d 7h | 2,387 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 86 reached 100+ customers, 27 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 Schenectady 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 |
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 ÷ 78,627 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. Schenectady County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Schenectady 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/schenectady-county