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2017 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 153K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1409th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2017
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 23, 2017 12:30 | January 25, 2017 05:30 | 1d 17h | 7,701 | 25K |
| 2 | June 24, 2017 01:30 | June 24, 2017 08:15 | 6h 45m | 7,695 | 20K |
| 3 | July 13, 2017 22:30 | July 14, 2017 10:00 | 11h 30m | 5,484 | 8,405 |
| 4 | March 1, 2017 20:45 | March 2, 2017 08:45 | 12h | 4,184 | 7,467 |
| 5 | August 13, 2017 14:45 | August 13, 2017 16:30 | 1h 45m | 2,799 | 732 |
| 6 | September 27, 2017 18:30 | September 28, 2017 13:00 | 18h 30m | 2,658 | 2,894 |
| 7 | December 13, 2017 19:30 | December 14, 2017 00:15 | 4h 45m | 2,540 | 3,234 |
| 8 | May 23, 2017 14:00 | May 23, 2017 15:30 | 1h 30m | 2,535 | 3,172 |
| 9 | October 13, 2017 20:30 | October 13, 2017 20:45 | 15m | 2,488 | 622 |
| 10 | June 19, 2017 11:45 | June 19, 2017 21:15 | 9h 30m | 2,485 | 2,457 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 73 reached 100+ customers, 32 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 66 min | 0.87 |
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 2017; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2017, 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/2017/new-jersey/cape-may-county