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2022 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 0.5 hours, a total of 7,512 customer-hours (Minnesota average 4.0 hours). That ranks 71st worst of 81 Minnesota counties and 2841st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nicollet County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 13, 2022 19:45 | December 13, 2022 23:00 | 3h 15m | 1,039 | 1,042 |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 14:15 | December 22, 2022 16:45 | 2h 30m | 798 | 1,229 |
| 3 | January 3, 2022 17:15 | January 3, 2022 18:00 | 45m | 682 | 511 |
| 4 | January 11, 2022 01:45 | January 11, 2022 03:30 | 1h 45m | 682 | 1,192 |
| 5 | June 29, 2022 17:45 | June 29, 2022 19:00 | 1h 15m | 102 | 128 |
| 6 | October 13, 2022 15:00 | October 13, 2022 19:30 | 4h 30m | 87 | 122 |
| 7 | October 24, 2022 14:30 | October 24, 2022 15:00 | 30m | 84 | 42 |
| 8 | May 27, 2022 18:00 | May 27, 2022 23:30 | 5h 30m | 77 | 289 |
| 9 | May 18, 2022 04:45 | May 18, 2022 10:30 | 5h 45m | 70 | 390 |
| 10 | August 28, 2022 12:30 | August 28, 2022 14:00 | 1h 30m | 68 | 102 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 5 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Nicollet County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2022 | 4.0 hrs | 1.08 | 72 min | 0.72 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| BENCO Electric Cooperative | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Saint Peter | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 80% of Minnesota's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 15,048 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. Nicollet County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Nicollet County, MN annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/minnesota/nicollet-county