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2015 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 177K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 761st 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 Sussex 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 12, 2015 11:15 | September 13, 2015 11:15 | 1d | 11,548 | 12K |
| 2 | August 3, 2015 20:15 | August 4, 2015 17:00 | 20h 45m | 5,416 | 18K |
| 3 | November 5, 2015 07:15 | November 5, 2015 13:30 | 6h 15m | 4,656 | 15K |
| 4 | October 20, 2015 04:15 | October 20, 2015 09:00 | 4h 45m | 4,385 | 5,995 |
| 5 | December 2, 2015 18:00 | December 2, 2015 22:00 | 4h | 3,676 | 6,335 |
| 6 | December 16, 2015 03:30 | December 16, 2015 04:30 | 1h | 3,118 | 2,469 |
| 7 | December 19, 2015 08:15 | December 19, 2015 10:45 | 2h 30m | 3,118 | 6,238 |
| 8 | October 29, 2015 03:00 | October 30, 2015 03:30 | 1d | 2,892 | 16K |
| 9 | September 22, 2015 11:15 | September 22, 2015 23:30 | 12h 15m | 2,840 | 13K |
| 10 | August 14, 2015 08:15 | August 14, 2015 14:30 | 6h 15m | 2,490 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 82 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county