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2016 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 23.7 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 122nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2016
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 21, 2016 19:45 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 6h 30m | 37,421 | 184K |
| 2 | January 23, 2016 02:15 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 16h | 24,778 | 623K |
| 3 | June 22, 2016 03:00 | June 23, 2016 10:00 | 1d 7h | 21,360 | 241K |
| 4 | April 2, 2016 03:30 | April 2, 2016 20:30 | 17h | 18,500 | 42K |
| 5 | April 12, 2016 00:30 | April 12, 2016 03:00 | 2h 30m | 9,395 | 5,366 |
| 6 | February 19, 2016 11:00 | February 19, 2016 18:45 | 7h 45m | 9,385 | 6,912 |
| 7 | June 28, 2016 11:30 | June 29, 2016 04:00 | 16h 30m | 7,844 | 15K |
| 8 | November 29, 2016 20:15 | November 30, 2016 04:15 | 8h | 7,775 | 13K |
| 9 | March 23, 2016 12:30 | March 24, 2016 08:30 | 20h | 5,631 | 7,573 |
| 10 | February 24, 2016 18:45 | February 26, 2016 01:45 | 1d 7h | 5,625 | 8,791 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 106 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 1.48 | 1.6 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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/new-jersey/cape-may-county