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2020 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 19.8 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (New York average 10.4 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 62 New York counties and 433rd 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 Rensselaer 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 20:15 | October 12, 2020 04:30 | 4d 8h | 41,294 | 1.3M |
| 2 | July 2, 2020 11:45 | July 7, 2020 08:45 | 4d 21h | 11,097 | 64K |
| 3 | September 28, 2020 07:15 | September 28, 2020 10:00 | 2h 45m | 6,000 | 8,514 |
| 4 | October 15, 2020 10:00 | October 17, 2020 09:00 | 1d 23h | 5,668 | 11K |
| 5 | December 25, 2020 00:45 | December 27, 2020 05:45 | 2d 5h | 3,450 | 14K |
| 6 | August 4, 2020 19:15 | August 7, 2020 04:30 | 2d 9h | 3,369 | 20K |
| 7 | November 11, 2020 14:00 | November 11, 2020 21:30 | 7h 30m | 3,266 | 6,032 |
| 8 | October 1, 2020 14:45 | October 1, 2020 20:45 | 6h | 3,260 | 2,240 |
| 9 | May 15, 2020 22:45 | May 17, 2020 02:15 | 1d 3h | 2,927 | 19K |
| 10 | December 2, 2020 16:30 | December 2, 2020 17:45 | 1h 15m | 2,619 | 3,274 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 104 reached 100+ customers, 34 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Rensselaer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2020 | 7.6 hrs | 1.50 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 |
| AVANGRID | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 80,326 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. Rensselaer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rensselaer 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/rensselaer-county