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2022 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 5.1 hours, a total of 407K customer-hours (New York average 3.7 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 62 New York counties and 1397th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Rensselaer 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 | July 17, 2022 19:30 | July 18, 2022 20:30 | 1d 1h | 12,866 | 71K |
| 2 | July 19, 2022 18:45 | July 20, 2022 00:15 | 5h 30m | 11,941 | 17K |
| 3 | February 3, 2022 20:15 | February 5, 2022 21:45 | 2d 1h | 6,873 | 19K |
| 4 | June 17, 2022 17:45 | June 18, 2022 02:00 | 8h 15m | 5,316 | 4,524 |
| 5 | March 8, 2022 01:15 | March 9, 2022 08:45 | 1d 7h | 4,698 | 38K |
| 6 | September 19, 2022 15:00 | September 20, 2022 03:00 | 12h | 3,923 | 9,014 |
| 7 | July 20, 2022 16:30 | July 21, 2022 05:00 | 12h 30m | 3,921 | 7,887 |
| 8 | May 4, 2022 16:30 | May 5, 2022 03:00 | 10h 30m | 3,518 | 8,677 |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 03:15 | December 26, 2022 21:15 | 3d 18h | 2,987 | 41K |
| 10 | April 8, 2022 00:30 | April 9, 2022 07:45 | 1d 7h | 2,899 | 8,624 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 117 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | 1.49 | 2.5 hrs | 1.18 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/new-york/rensselaer-county