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2015 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 358K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 426th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 23, 2015 22:15 | June 26, 2015 17:45 | 2d 19h | 76,550 | 134K |
| 2 | May 14, 2015 13:00 | May 15, 2015 02:00 | 13h | 18,828 | 4,772 |
| 3 | June 6, 2015 16:30 | June 7, 2015 01:30 | 9h | 12,952 | 34K |
| 4 | July 2, 2015 12:45 | July 3, 2015 09:30 | 20h 45m | 9,058 | 6,522 |
| 5 | February 1, 2015 01:30 | February 1, 2015 04:30 | 3h | 8,681 | 13K |
| 6 | February 7, 2015 16:45 | February 7, 2015 20:00 | 3h 15m | 7,829 | 4,781 |
| 7 | April 22, 2015 13:30 | April 22, 2015 17:15 | 3h 45m | 6,589 | 8,239 |
| 8 | October 2, 2015 06:15 | October 4, 2015 21:30 | 2d 15h | 4,913 | 23K |
| 9 | October 9, 2015 14:00 | October 10, 2015 14:45 | 1d | 4,835 | 8,223 |
| 10 | November 20, 2015 20:00 | November 20, 2015 21:15 | 1h 15m | 4,579 | 3,434 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 79 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2015 | 22.8 hrs | 2.10 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
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 Jersey's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/new-jersey/cape-may-county