County annual report · FIPS 34039
2016 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 593K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1239th 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 Union 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 30, 2016 10:45 | July 2, 2016 21:00 | 2d 10h | 18,731 | 26K |
| 2 | June 29, 2016 02:00 | June 29, 2016 10:30 | 8h 30m | 17,096 | 16K |
| 3 | July 17, 2016 10:30 | July 24, 2016 05:15 | 6d 18h | 14,245 | 98K |
| 4 | July 14, 2016 13:15 | July 17, 2016 01:15 | 2d 12h | 9,970 | 21K |
| 5 | July 25, 2016 19:45 | August 2, 2016 00:30 | 7d 4h | 9,050 | 40K |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 09:30 | April 6, 2016 00:00 | 2d 14h | 7,714 | 61K |
| 7 | August 26, 2016 18:15 | August 27, 2016 16:00 | 21h 45m | 5,444 | 2,352 |
| 8 | October 5, 2016 09:00 | October 5, 2016 09:45 | 45m | 4,433 | 2,441 |
| 9 | November 7, 2016 13:00 | November 9, 2016 03:00 | 1d 14h | 4,353 | 3,010 |
| 10 | June 15, 2016 13:45 | June 17, 2016 02:30 | 1d 12h | 3,946 | 9,179 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 207 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county