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2020 Renville County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Renville County, ND went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 4,357 customer-hours (North Dakota average 1.3 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 1975th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota 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 4, 2020 09:00 | July 4, 2020 11:30 | 2h 30m | 851 | 1,613 |
| 2 | August 4, 2020 19:00 | August 4, 2020 21:00 | 2h | 839 | 983 |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 04:00 | June 30, 2020 04:15 | 15m | 636 | 159 |
| 4 | June 25, 2020 03:00 | June 25, 2020 05:30 | 2h 30m | 178 | 433 |
| 5 | June 29, 2020 01:15 | June 29, 2020 01:45 | 30m | 78 | 34 |
| 6 | September 19, 2020 19:00 | September 19, 2020 19:15 | 15m | 57 | 14 |
| 7 | July 26, 2020 17:00 | July 26, 2020 17:30 | 30m | 22 | 11 |
| 8 | June 23, 2020 23:15 | June 23, 2020 23:30 | 15m | 17 | 4 |
| 9 | March 9, 2020 15:30 | March 12, 2020 14:30 | 2d 23h | 8 | 431 |
| 10 | March 12, 2020 15:15 | March 14, 2020 06:45 | 1d 15h | 8 | 244 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otter Tail Power Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 | 1.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Verendrye Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 49 min | 0.68 | 49 min | 0.68 |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Burke-Divide Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| North Central Elec Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 66% of North Dakota's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,606 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 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Renville County, ND 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/north-dakota/renville-county