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2015 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 212K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1861st 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 Union 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 | May 5, 2015 12:30 | May 6, 2015 20:15 | 1d 7h | 5,747 | 1,523 |
| 2 | September 21, 2015 14:30 | September 22, 2015 02:45 | 12h 15m | 4,735 | 4,309 |
| 3 | December 14, 2015 10:30 | December 16, 2015 04:00 | 1d 17h | 4,666 | 8,470 |
| 4 | February 9, 2015 21:45 | February 10, 2015 00:45 | 3h | 4,647 | 3,291 |
| 5 | September 12, 2015 11:15 | September 13, 2015 09:45 | 22h 30m | 4,412 | 1,267 |
| 6 | August 24, 2015 08:15 | August 24, 2015 08:30 | 15m | 4,397 | 1,099 |
| 7 | June 6, 2015 12:15 | June 6, 2015 15:30 | 3h 15m | 4,012 | 3,026 |
| 8 | September 30, 2015 05:45 | October 2, 2015 09:45 | 2d 4h | 3,521 | 5,700 |
| 9 | August 17, 2015 15:45 | August 18, 2015 04:30 | 12h 45m | 3,198 | 5,895 |
| 10 | May 12, 2015 14:30 | May 14, 2015 00:15 | 1d 9h | 3,165 | 5,477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 159 reached 100+ customers, 60 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county