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2023 Golden Valley County, ND Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Golden Valley County, ND went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 1,773 customer-hours (North Dakota average 4.1 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 51 North Dakota counties and 2548th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with ND, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Dakota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Golden Valley County, 2023
The 9 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 19, 2023 09:45 | April 19, 2023 12:45 | 3h | 644 | 1,572 |
| 2 | June 19, 2023 06:45 | June 19, 2023 09:00 | 2h 15m | 57 | 123 |
| 3 | July 11, 2023 09:00 | July 11, 2023 09:15 | 15m | 54 | 14 |
| 4 | May 17, 2023 14:15 | May 17, 2023 14:30 | 15m | 25 | 6 |
| 5 | January 10, 2023 05:45 | January 10, 2023 09:00 | 3h 15m | 12 | 39 |
| 6 | March 31, 2023 01:45 | March 31, 2023 02:45 | 1h | 11 | 11 |
| 7 | April 11, 2023 01:00 | April 11, 2023 01:45 | 45m | 7 | 5 |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 11:00 | July 14, 2023 11:15 | 15m | 6 | 2 |
| 9 | April 28, 2023 02:30 | April 28, 2023 02:45 | 15m | 5 | 1 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 1 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Golden Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 | 2.4 hrs | 1.24 |
| WAPA-- Western Area Power Administration | - | - | - | - | - |
| Montana-Dakota Utilities Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Roughrider Electric Cooperativ | - | - | - | - | - |
| Goldenwest Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 North Dakota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,324 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. Golden Valley County has data for 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Golden Valley County, ND 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/north-dakota/golden-valley-county