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2020 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 16.1 hours, a total of 3.0M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 62 New York counties and 522nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany 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 | October 7, 2020 17:15 | October 13, 2020 08:00 | 5d 14h | 67,944 | 2.5M |
| 2 | June 11, 2020 11:30 | June 12, 2020 03:30 | 16h | 6,178 | 6,757 |
| 3 | December 18, 2020 23:30 | December 19, 2020 11:00 | 11h 30m | 5,291 | 19K |
| 4 | July 2, 2020 21:00 | July 4, 2020 20:00 | 1d 23h | 4,750 | 23K |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 15:45 | February 10, 2020 00:45 | 2d 9h | 4,733 | 27K |
| 6 | October 31, 2020 15:00 | November 2, 2020 00:00 | 1d 9h | 4,508 | 14K |
| 7 | February 11, 2020 22:30 | February 12, 2020 05:15 | 6h 45m | 4,358 | 9,341 |
| 8 | June 10, 2020 10:30 | June 10, 2020 17:45 | 7h 15m | 4,315 | 4,347 |
| 9 | November 21, 2020 16:00 | November 21, 2020 23:45 | 7h 45m | 4,223 | 4,550 |
| 10 | November 2, 2020 11:30 | November 4, 2020 10:00 | 1d 22h | 4,097 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 150 reached 100+ customers, 47 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Albany 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2020 | 7.6 hrs | 1.50 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 |
| Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 | 2.9 hrs | 1.38 |
| Village of Green Island - (NY) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of New York's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 185,574 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. Albany County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Albany County, NY 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/new-york/albany-county