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2020 Renville County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Renville County, MN went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 9,555 customer-hours (Minnesota average 2.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2476th 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 Renville 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 18, 2020 06:15 | July 19, 2020 02:45 | 20h 30m | 757 | 5,972 |
| 2 | October 1, 2020 14:45 | October 1, 2020 19:30 | 4h 45m | 679 | 513 |
| 3 | December 23, 2020 17:30 | December 24, 2020 13:45 | 20h 15m | 379 | 525 |
| 4 | September 20, 2020 20:15 | September 20, 2020 22:30 | 2h 15m | 99 | 223 |
| 5 | August 8, 2020 19:15 | August 10, 2020 02:15 | 1d 7h | 90 | 983 |
| 6 | March 5, 2020 22:45 | March 5, 2020 23:30 | 45m | 89 | 67 |
| 7 | August 12, 2020 11:45 | August 12, 2020 15:30 | 3h 45m | 77 | 148 |
| 8 | April 16, 2020 22:00 | April 17, 2020 00:15 | 2h 15m | 75 | 95 |
| 9 | October 21, 2020 22:15 | October 21, 2020 23:30 | 1h 15m | 75 | 76 |
| 10 | June 29, 2020 19:15 | June 29, 2020 22:30 | 3h 15m | 35 | 85 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Renville 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 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2020 | 11.1 hrs | - | 60 min | - |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2020 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 | 3.0 hrs | 1.23 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| City of Olivia - (MN) | 2018 | 5 min | 0.09 | 5 min | 0.09 |
| City of Fairfax - (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 ÷ 6,578 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. Renville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Renville 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/renville-county