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2020 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 12K customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2738th 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 Nicollet 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 | July 9, 2020 10:45 | July 9, 2020 15:45 | 5h | 1,718 | 2,591 |
| 2 | August 12, 2020 15:15 | August 12, 2020 20:45 | 5h 30m | 1,412 | 2,554 |
| 3 | September 20, 2020 13:00 | September 20, 2020 14:15 | 1h 15m | 1,045 | 1,306 |
| 4 | January 7, 2020 12:15 | January 7, 2020 22:30 | 10h 15m | 729 | 1,286 |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 23:00 | August 25, 2020 23:45 | 45m | 603 | 452 |
| 6 | April 12, 2020 12:45 | April 12, 2020 15:30 | 2h 45m | 427 | 1,133 |
| 7 | June 11, 2020 12:30 | June 11, 2020 17:15 | 4h 45m | 84 | 113 |
| 8 | June 21, 2020 13:00 | June 21, 2020 14:30 | 1h 30m | 84 | 125 |
| 9 | December 28, 2020 20:00 | December 28, 2020 20:45 | 45m | 83 | 62 |
| 10 | August 6, 2020 11:00 | August 6, 2020 13:30 | 2h 30m | 77 | 193 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 6 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Nicollet 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 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet 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/nicollet-county