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2023 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 883K customer-hours (New York average 2.2 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 62 New York counties and 771st 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 Rensselaer 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 14, 2023 08:00 | March 19, 2023 23:00 | 5d 15h | 23,478 | 440K |
| 2 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 11, 2023 22:45 | 9h | 6,279 | 14K |
| 3 | September 7, 2023 19:15 | September 10, 2023 23:15 | 3d 4h | 5,372 | 124K |
| 4 | January 23, 2023 06:00 | January 25, 2023 00:00 | 1d 18h | 4,986 | 36K |
| 5 | January 17, 2023 17:15 | January 18, 2023 18:00 | 1d | 4,667 | 42K |
| 6 | June 30, 2023 19:00 | July 1, 2023 03:15 | 8h 15m | 3,819 | 7,727 |
| 7 | December 3, 2023 15:45 | December 4, 2023 06:45 | 15h | 2,753 | 5,904 |
| 8 | September 24, 2023 15:45 | September 25, 2023 01:00 | 9h 15m | 2,713 | 6,806 |
| 9 | July 29, 2023 11:00 | July 30, 2023 08:45 | 21h 45m | 2,664 | 23K |
| 10 | May 30, 2023 10:30 | May 30, 2023 16:15 | 5h 45m | 2,418 | 3,029 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 122 reached 100+ customers, 31 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 Rensselaer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York State Elec & Gas Corp | 2016 | 4.5 hrs | 1.56 | 3.6 hrs | 1.47 |
| Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. | 2023 | 3.5 hrs | 1.14 | 2.2 hrs | 0.98 |
| 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 n/a of New York's customers in 2023; 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, 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/rensselaer-county