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2016 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 652K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 826th 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 Somerset 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 | January 27, 2016 14:45 | February 10, 2016 19:45 | 14d 5h | 11,387 | 15K |
| 2 | July 25, 2016 21:15 | July 28, 2016 14:30 | 2d 17h | 9,770 | 80K |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 05:30 | April 6, 2016 07:30 | 3d 2h | 8,801 | 107K |
| 4 | July 18, 2016 19:30 | July 20, 2016 04:15 | 1d 8h | 6,841 | 39K |
| 5 | November 29, 2016 00:15 | November 29, 2016 06:15 | 6h | 5,253 | 23K |
| 6 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 15, 2016 05:45 | 2d 9h | 5,058 | 22K |
| 7 | July 30, 2016 19:15 | August 2, 2016 02:15 | 2d 7h | 4,318 | 19K |
| 8 | April 12, 2016 12:15 | April 12, 2016 19:00 | 6h 45m | 4,140 | 11K |
| 9 | January 10, 2016 08:00 | January 12, 2016 11:30 | 2d 3h | 3,688 | 9,236 |
| 10 | April 21, 2016 23:30 | April 22, 2016 03:45 | 4h 15m | 3,680 | 929 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 245 reached 100+ customers, 99 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county