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2015 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 563K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1498th 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 Essex 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 | September 9, 2015 13:30 | September 13, 2015 20:00 | 4d 6h | 21,065 | 20K |
| 2 | December 14, 2015 14:30 | December 20, 2015 02:00 | 5d 11h | 16,626 | 15K |
| 3 | December 22, 2015 13:00 | December 24, 2015 04:45 | 1d 15h | 12,786 | 6,765 |
| 4 | September 28, 2015 13:00 | October 6, 2015 10:00 | 7d 21h | 11,553 | 26K |
| 5 | April 15, 2015 12:45 | April 17, 2015 08:30 | 1d 19h | 10,133 | 7,078 |
| 6 | April 22, 2015 12:15 | April 26, 2015 00:15 | 3d 12h | 9,953 | 6,418 |
| 7 | April 6, 2015 12:15 | April 12, 2015 16:00 | 6d 3h | 9,222 | 5,466 |
| 8 | July 22, 2015 04:45 | July 27, 2015 01:15 | 4d 20h | 9,210 | 16K |
| 9 | March 14, 2015 10:30 | March 18, 2015 18:00 | 4d 7h | 8,232 | 19K |
| 10 | March 23, 2015 09:45 | March 26, 2015 05:15 | 2d 19h | 8,232 | 8,095 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 120 reached 100+ customers, 82 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2015 | 81 min | 0.69 | 38 min | 0.64 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2015 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county