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2015 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 406K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1631st 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 Ocean 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 10, 2015 11:45 | September 11, 2015 07:30 | 19h 45m | 9,562 | 18K |
| 2 | November 20, 2015 10:00 | November 21, 2015 04:15 | 18h 15m | 9,545 | 12K |
| 3 | December 24, 2015 01:45 | December 24, 2015 07:00 | 5h 15m | 7,840 | 5,898 |
| 4 | October 1, 2015 19:30 | October 5, 2015 04:45 | 3d 9h | 5,736 | 35K |
| 5 | October 1, 2015 13:00 | October 1, 2015 17:00 | 4h | 5,326 | 6,684 |
| 6 | April 22, 2015 15:30 | April 22, 2015 17:15 | 1h 45m | 5,062 | 6,328 |
| 7 | September 2, 2015 03:30 | September 2, 2015 07:00 | 3h 30m | 4,952 | 9,060 |
| 8 | June 26, 2015 07:45 | June 26, 2015 09:00 | 1h 15m | 4,951 | 2,476 |
| 9 | October 8, 2015 22:00 | October 9, 2015 10:30 | 12h 30m | 4,740 | 4,130 |
| 10 | November 26, 2015 12:15 | November 26, 2015 17:00 | 4h 45m | 4,680 | 1,321 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 157 reached 100+ customers, 49 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2015 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2015 | 22.8 hrs | 2.10 | 1.6 hrs | 1.14 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county