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2023 Albany County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Albany County, NY went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 740K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 62 New York counties and 1670th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Albany 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 | March 4, 2023 03:00 | March 7, 2023 05:30 | 3d 2h | 28,448 | 292K |
| 2 | July 24, 2023 17:30 | July 25, 2023 08:00 | 14h 30m | 7,098 | 13K |
| 3 | July 18, 2023 12:45 | July 19, 2023 16:00 | 1d 3h | 5,790 | 19K |
| 4 | March 14, 2023 06:00 | March 17, 2023 10:45 | 3d 4h | 5,583 | 67K |
| 5 | October 1, 2023 12:45 | October 4, 2023 02:00 | 2d 13h | 5,223 | 22K |
| 6 | September 7, 2023 19:30 | September 10, 2023 01:30 | 2d 6h | 4,878 | 46K |
| 7 | June 26, 2023 12:15 | June 28, 2023 00:00 | 1d 11h | 4,616 | 2,037 |
| 8 | October 7, 2023 08:45 | October 8, 2023 00:15 | 15h 30m | 4,560 | 15K |
| 9 | March 26, 2023 17:15 | March 27, 2023 09:00 | 15h 45m | 4,363 | 4,548 |
| 10 | June 18, 2023 10:00 | June 18, 2023 21:30 | 11h 30m | 4,262 | 5,022 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 153 reached 100+ customers, 37 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.14 | 2.2 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 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/new-york/albany-county