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2023 Nicollet County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Nicollet County, MN went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 16K customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 47th worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2651st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Nicollet County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 30, 2023 20:30 | April 30, 2023 22:30 | 2h | 2,088 | 2,872 |
| 2 | July 28, 2023 05:00 | July 28, 2023 21:45 | 16h 45m | 858 | 5,773 |
| 3 | February 11, 2023 00:45 | February 11, 2023 04:30 | 3h 45m | 673 | 2,520 |
| 4 | August 4, 2023 02:00 | August 4, 2023 08:45 | 6h 45m | 231 | 614 |
| 5 | November 19, 2023 21:15 | November 19, 2023 22:15 | 1h | 168 | 168 |
| 6 | June 27, 2023 20:30 | June 27, 2023 21:45 | 1h 15m | 164 | 205 |
| 7 | August 21, 2023 18:45 | August 21, 2023 22:00 | 3h 15m | 132 | 297 |
| 8 | October 4, 2023 04:30 | October 4, 2023 13:45 | 9h 15m | 112 | 644 |
| 9 | August 14, 2023 18:45 | August 14, 2023 20:15 | 1h 30m | 103 | 155 |
| 10 | April 1, 2023 05:00 | April 1, 2023 16:00 | 11h | 97 | 351 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 9 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| 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 n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/minnesota/nicollet-county