County annual report · FIPS 34021
2016 Mercer County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Mercer County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 377K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1359th 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 Mercer 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 28, 2016 04:15 | June 28, 2016 17:00 | 12h 45m | 21,839 | 6,525 |
| 2 | December 1, 2016 03:45 | December 2, 2016 22:45 | 1d 19h | 17,794 | 7,024 |
| 3 | July 25, 2016 15:15 | July 27, 2016 10:30 | 1d 19h | 9,501 | 59K |
| 4 | April 6, 2016 06:00 | April 6, 2016 06:15 | 15m | 8,560 | 2,140 |
| 5 | November 17, 2016 12:45 | November 18, 2016 10:45 | 22h | 5,012 | 5,528 |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 04:45 | April 5, 2016 21:15 | 2d 16h | 4,945 | 34K |
| 7 | February 24, 2016 15:15 | February 26, 2016 08:15 | 1d 17h | 4,242 | 19K |
| 8 | December 17, 2016 15:15 | December 18, 2016 01:00 | 9h 45m | 4,088 | 1,050 |
| 9 | April 24, 2016 14:45 | April 24, 2016 20:15 | 5h 30m | 3,833 | 8,622 |
| 10 | June 21, 2016 11:15 | June 22, 2016 02:00 | 14h 45m | 3,253 | 6,916 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 203 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Mercer 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 ÷ 193,667 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. Mercer County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mercer 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/mercer-county