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2015 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 310K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1331st 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 Somerset 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 | August 8, 2015 21:45 | August 9, 2015 06:45 | 9h | 19,918 | 72K |
| 2 | July 17, 2015 08:15 | July 17, 2015 09:30 | 1h 15m | 6,405 | 4,885 |
| 3 | December 15, 2015 07:00 | December 16, 2015 06:00 | 23h | 4,467 | 11K |
| 4 | December 23, 2015 06:30 | December 23, 2015 12:15 | 5h 45m | 3,646 | 5,651 |
| 5 | June 12, 2015 16:15 | June 13, 2015 00:45 | 8h 30m | 3,361 | 4,888 |
| 6 | December 9, 2015 13:00 | December 9, 2015 13:15 | 15m | 3,102 | 776 |
| 7 | October 2, 2015 16:15 | October 4, 2015 00:30 | 1d 8h | 2,941 | 15K |
| 8 | December 11, 2015 09:30 | December 11, 2015 21:30 | 12h | 2,859 | 3,056 |
| 9 | November 19, 2015 20:15 | November 21, 2015 06:45 | 1d 10h | 2,838 | 15K |
| 10 | February 11, 2015 06:45 | February 11, 2015 20:45 | 14h | 2,707 | 3,597 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 184 reached 100+ customers, 63 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county