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2021 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 532K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 62 New York counties and 1898th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 1, 2021 14:15 | March 3, 2021 01:30 | 1d 11h | 11,382 | 77K |
| 2 | July 10, 2021 07:30 | July 11, 2021 23:30 | 1d 16h | 6,638 | 11K |
| 3 | January 21, 2021 13:15 | January 22, 2021 02:15 | 13h | 6,581 | 13K |
| 4 | April 19, 2021 15:15 | April 20, 2021 07:15 | 16h | 5,948 | 17K |
| 5 | August 12, 2021 16:30 | August 17, 2021 00:45 | 4d 8h | 5,878 | 45K |
| 6 | September 8, 2021 15:15 | September 10, 2021 07:15 | 1d 16h | 5,788 | 28K |
| 7 | March 13, 2021 00:45 | March 13, 2021 21:45 | 21h | 4,684 | 10K |
| 8 | March 18, 2021 00:45 | March 18, 2021 07:45 | 7h | 4,368 | 4,571 |
| 9 | July 18, 2021 08:45 | July 20, 2021 09:30 | 2d | 4,291 | 6,890 |
| 10 | June 29, 2021 08:45 | July 1, 2021 08:15 | 1d 23h | 4,173 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 165 reached 100+ customers, 57 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 2021, 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. | 2021 | 3.7 hrs | 1.32 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/new-york/albany-county