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2024 Rensselaer County, NY Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Rensselaer County, NY went without power for an average of 17.1 hours, a total of 1.4M customer-hours (New York average 4.0 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 62 New York counties and 594th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NY, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New York customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Rensselaer County, 2024
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 23, 2024 13:15 | March 27, 2024 05:45 | 3d 16h | 28,141 | 688K |
| 2 | July 16, 2024 11:15 | July 19, 2024 07:45 | 2d 20h | 11,209 | 110K |
| 3 | January 13, 2024 08:00 | January 16, 2024 02:30 | 2d 18h | 8,368 | 63K |
| 4 | January 10, 2024 00:15 | January 12, 2024 05:45 | 2d 5h | 7,823 | 118K |
| 5 | April 3, 2024 10:45 | April 6, 2024 19:45 | 3d 9h | 5,461 | 133K |
| 6 | July 7, 2024 22:30 | July 8, 2024 04:15 | 5h 45m | 4,564 | 6,616 |
| 7 | March 17, 2024 11:30 | March 18, 2024 01:00 | 13h 30m | 3,811 | 8,979 |
| 8 | August 8, 2024 21:15 | August 11, 2024 22:30 | 3d 1h | 3,263 | 26K |
| 9 | February 25, 2024 18:00 | February 25, 2024 19:15 | 1h 15m | 3,045 | 1,171 |
| 10 | November 21, 2024 16:45 | November 21, 2024 23:45 | 7h | 2,474 | 7,911 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 111 reached 100+ customers, 33 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 2024, 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. | 2024 | 8.5 hrs | 1.69 | 2.3 hrs | 1.05 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/new-york/rensselaer-county