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2016 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 875K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1246th 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 Essex 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 | May 11, 2016 09:15 | May 12, 2016 10:45 | 1d 1h | 28,954 | 48K |
| 2 | June 1, 2016 10:00 | June 5, 2016 19:15 | 4d 9h | 21,814 | 16K |
| 3 | November 14, 2016 12:30 | November 21, 2016 10:45 | 6d 22h | 18,003 | 13K |
| 4 | April 18, 2016 13:45 | April 21, 2016 09:45 | 2d 20h | 16,778 | 6,400 |
| 5 | October 2, 2016 22:00 | October 7, 2016 12:30 | 4d 14h | 13,723 | 7,775 |
| 6 | September 26, 2016 07:15 | October 2, 2016 17:00 | 6d 9h | 13,034 | 8,841 |
| 7 | April 22, 2016 19:15 | April 25, 2016 04:30 | 2d 9h | 12,397 | 6,947 |
| 8 | May 31, 2016 11:30 | June 1, 2016 02:30 | 15h | 11,549 | 3,307 |
| 9 | July 25, 2016 10:30 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 8d 5h | 9,534 | 42K |
| 10 | July 14, 2016 05:00 | July 20, 2016 08:00 | 6d 3h | 9,463 | 79K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 115 reached 100+ customers, 73 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2016 | 69 min | 0.85 | 50 min | 0.75 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.65 | 2.5 hrs | 1.41 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county