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2020 Grant County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Grant County, MN went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 9,277 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 1964th 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 Grant 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 | June 9, 2020 08:45 | June 9, 2020 09:30 | 45m | 1,055 | 791 |
| 2 | July 8, 2020 10:00 | July 8, 2020 12:15 | 2h 15m | 975 | 1,683 |
| 3 | March 5, 2020 14:45 | March 5, 2020 16:00 | 1h 15m | 761 | 583 |
| 4 | April 5, 2020 00:30 | April 5, 2020 03:15 | 2h 45m | 761 | 681 |
| 5 | July 8, 2020 08:15 | July 8, 2020 09:15 | 1h | 761 | 653 |
| 6 | June 18, 2020 00:45 | June 18, 2020 02:00 | 1h 15m | 617 | 771 |
| 7 | August 27, 2020 14:00 | August 27, 2020 15:45 | 1h 45m | 617 | 1,080 |
| 8 | August 27, 2020 19:15 | August 27, 2020 22:30 | 3h 15m | 617 | 1,630 |
| 9 | September 10, 2020 05:00 | September 10, 2020 06:30 | 1h 30m | 617 | 926 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 09:45 | June 8, 2020 10:00 | 15m | 440 | 110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 13 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Grant 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Lake Region Electric Cooperative - (MN) | 2020 | 6.5 hrs | 2.71 | 2.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Runestone Electric Assn | 2020 | 2.2 hrs | 1.10 | 60 min | 0.70 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Traverse Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Elbow Lake - (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 ÷ 3,371 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. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant 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/grant-county