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2016 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 14.5 hours, a total of 688K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 225th 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 Sussex 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 | August 11, 2016 20:30 | August 12, 2016 12:00 | 15h 30m | 28,731 | 45K |
| 2 | September 11, 2016 11:15 | September 11, 2016 20:30 | 9h 15m | 21,052 | 6,853 |
| 3 | September 14, 2016 20:30 | September 16, 2016 10:00 | 1d 13h | 18,992 | 94K |
| 4 | June 5, 2016 21:30 | June 7, 2016 04:15 | 1d 6h | 14,442 | 34K |
| 5 | August 18, 2016 07:00 | August 19, 2016 04:15 | 21h 15m | 13,426 | 4,189 |
| 6 | June 29, 2016 09:00 | June 29, 2016 20:00 | 11h | 9,698 | 5,849 |
| 7 | April 26, 2016 06:30 | April 26, 2016 07:30 | 1h | 9,610 | 7,720 |
| 8 | December 27, 2016 00:30 | December 27, 2016 06:30 | 6h | 8,420 | 22K |
| 9 | September 30, 2016 15:15 | October 1, 2016 00:45 | 9h 30m | 7,412 | 4,006 |
| 10 | July 12, 2016 13:30 | July 13, 2016 00:30 | 11h | 6,873 | 2,949 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 210 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Sussex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.65 | 2.5 hrs | 1.41 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county