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2016 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1046th 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 Middlesex 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 | July 25, 2016 11:30 | July 28, 2016 05:00 | 2d 17h | 50,123 | 251K |
| 2 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 16, 2016 07:30 | 3d 10h | 22,450 | 76K |
| 3 | April 22, 2016 21:15 | April 24, 2016 02:45 | 1d 5h | 16,984 | 54K |
| 4 | April 3, 2016 05:15 | April 6, 2016 03:15 | 2d 22h | 13,071 | 84K |
| 5 | July 18, 2016 12:30 | July 20, 2016 14:15 | 2d 1h | 12,731 | 44K |
| 6 | June 30, 2016 10:15 | June 30, 2016 16:45 | 6h 30m | 11,342 | 12K |
| 7 | December 4, 2016 04:45 | December 5, 2016 10:15 | 1d 5h | 8,470 | 18K |
| 8 | February 26, 2016 09:30 | February 27, 2016 02:15 | 16h 45m | 7,112 | 16K |
| 9 | August 24, 2016 08:15 | August 24, 2016 22:30 | 14h 15m | 6,359 | 12K |
| 10 | November 19, 2016 12:45 | November 21, 2016 12:45 | 2d | 6,347 | 5,972 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 290 reached 100+ customers, 144 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county