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2017 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 545K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1860th 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 Essex 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 | November 13, 2017 09:00 | November 18, 2017 07:15 | 4d 22h | 13,372 | 5,214 |
| 2 | March 13, 2017 16:00 | March 25, 2017 20:45 | 12d 4h | 12,489 | 21K |
| 3 | October 14, 2017 16:00 | October 15, 2017 06:45 | 14h 45m | 9,150 | 2,353 |
| 4 | May 7, 2017 19:00 | May 10, 2017 10:45 | 2d 15h | 9,117 | 3,615 |
| 5 | November 25, 2017 09:45 | November 30, 2017 21:15 | 5d 11h | 7,877 | 7,540 |
| 6 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 24, 2017 10:30 | 6d 15h | 5,153 | 37K |
| 7 | November 5, 2017 13:00 | November 11, 2017 12:30 | 5d 23h | 4,819 | 8,610 |
| 8 | June 7, 2017 11:45 | June 28, 2017 10:45 | 20d 23h | 4,793 | 53K |
| 9 | March 28, 2017 13:15 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 4d 5h | 4,613 | 3,498 |
| 10 | August 20, 2017 22:30 | August 26, 2017 02:15 | 5d 3h | 4,086 | 9,852 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 96 reached 100+ customers, 61 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2017 | 50 min | 0.75 | 45 min | 0.73 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.26 | 2.2 hrs | 1.19 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county