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2017 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 593K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1841st 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 Middlesex 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 | March 13, 2017 00:45 | March 14, 2017 04:15 | 1d 3h | 13,293 | 12K |
| 2 | April 27, 2017 04:00 | April 28, 2017 01:45 | 21h 45m | 11,932 | 23K |
| 3 | April 29, 2017 09:00 | May 1, 2017 01:00 | 1d 16h | 10,589 | 36K |
| 4 | November 27, 2017 07:00 | November 27, 2017 09:45 | 2h 45m | 8,374 | 8,617 |
| 5 | September 15, 2017 06:15 | September 15, 2017 06:30 | 15m | 8,364 | 2,091 |
| 6 | December 3, 2017 14:15 | December 5, 2017 04:00 | 1d 13h | 8,356 | 4,510 |
| 7 | April 10, 2017 08:15 | April 10, 2017 09:15 | 1h | 7,672 | 3,507 |
| 8 | April 19, 2017 07:45 | April 19, 2017 08:30 | 45m | 7,323 | 2,148 |
| 9 | December 8, 2017 06:30 | December 8, 2017 06:45 | 15m | 7,033 | 1,758 |
| 10 | February 2, 2017 10:15 | February 2, 2017 11:00 | 45m | 6,678 | 2,002 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 235 reached 100+ customers, 113 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county