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2015 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 20.3 hours, a total of 741K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 116th 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 Salem 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 19:00 | June 29, 2015 09:15 | 5d 14h | 15,558 | 640K |
| 2 | July 15, 2015 09:00 | July 16, 2015 07:00 | 22h | 4,732 | 10K |
| 3 | October 2, 2015 17:45 | October 4, 2015 22:00 | 2d 4h | 4,215 | 9,450 |
| 4 | November 3, 2015 17:15 | November 3, 2015 19:30 | 2h 15m | 3,982 | 7,625 |
| 5 | February 18, 2015 16:30 | February 18, 2015 18:30 | 2h | 3,706 | 5,652 |
| 6 | September 26, 2015 17:00 | September 26, 2015 23:30 | 6h 30m | 3,371 | 4,039 |
| 7 | April 11, 2015 19:15 | April 12, 2015 18:45 | 23h 30m | 2,640 | 2,271 |
| 8 | September 13, 2015 11:00 | September 13, 2015 13:00 | 2h | 2,361 | 3,028 |
| 9 | September 3, 2015 13:30 | September 8, 2015 13:15 | 4d 23h | 2,003 | 3,676 |
| 10 | December 22, 2015 13:00 | December 22, 2015 17:15 | 4h 15m | 1,919 | 891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 79 reached 100+ customers, 16 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county