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2021 Schenectady County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Schenectady County, NY went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 150K customer-hours (New York average 2.7 hours). That ranks 54th worst of 62 New York counties and 2259th 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 Schenectady 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 | October 13, 2021 11:15 | October 13, 2021 15:45 | 4h 30m | 6,294 | 7,880 |
| 2 | April 24, 2021 14:30 | April 25, 2021 10:00 | 19h 30m | 5,449 | 7,642 |
| 3 | October 27, 2021 11:30 | October 27, 2021 18:45 | 7h 15m | 4,422 | 5,587 |
| 4 | May 26, 2021 20:00 | May 27, 2021 16:15 | 20h 15m | 4,415 | 14K |
| 5 | June 9, 2021 15:15 | June 10, 2021 16:15 | 1d 1h | 2,784 | 7,487 |
| 6 | February 5, 2021 14:00 | February 5, 2021 17:15 | 3h 15m | 2,707 | 2,308 |
| 7 | February 16, 2021 10:00 | February 17, 2021 06:45 | 20h 45m | 2,012 | 6,537 |
| 8 | March 29, 2021 09:30 | March 29, 2021 21:30 | 12h | 1,860 | 3,546 |
| 9 | June 27, 2021 23:00 | June 29, 2021 09:30 | 1d 10h | 1,611 | 4,298 |
| 10 | October 11, 2021 00:45 | October 11, 2021 12:15 | 11h 30m | 1,605 | 1,867 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 78 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Schenectady 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 |
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 ÷ 78,627 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. Schenectady County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Schenectady 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/schenectady-county