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2020 Carver County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carver County, MN went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 84K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 30th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2271st of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carver County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 24, 2020 10:00 | August 24, 2020 17:00 | 7h | 2,998 | 5,082 |
| 2 | December 19, 2020 06:45 | December 19, 2020 13:45 | 7h | 2,373 | 12K |
| 3 | May 17, 2020 23:00 | May 18, 2020 04:15 | 5h 15m | 2,338 | 5,225 |
| 4 | September 7, 2020 05:15 | September 7, 2020 08:00 | 2h 45m | 1,734 | 4,334 |
| 5 | October 8, 2020 15:45 | October 8, 2020 18:45 | 3h | 1,647 | 874 |
| 6 | April 6, 2020 01:15 | April 6, 2020 04:45 | 3h 30m | 1,363 | 2,279 |
| 7 | March 25, 2020 13:30 | March 25, 2020 18:30 | 5h | 1,216 | 2,738 |
| 8 | July 18, 2020 01:00 | July 18, 2020 02:45 | 1h 45m | 887 | 1,109 |
| 9 | April 7, 2020 20:15 | April 8, 2020 00:15 | 4h | 865 | 1,865 |
| 10 | December 5, 2020 06:00 | December 5, 2020 14:15 | 8h 15m | 765 | 1,135 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 54 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Carver County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2020 | 1.7 hrs | 0.84 | 68 min | 0.71 |
| Minnesota Valley Electric Coop | 2020 | 63 min | 0.79 | 44 min | 0.44 |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Wright-Hennepin Coop Elec Assn | 2020 | 29 min | 0.37 | 29 min | 0.37 |
| City of Chaska - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 43,054 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. Carver County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carver County, MN annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/minnesota/carver-county