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2017 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.9 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1127th 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 Ocean 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 | July 9, 2017 10:15 | July 10, 2017 11:30 | 1d 1h | 51,916 | 90K |
| 2 | August 24, 2017 02:15 | August 26, 2017 05:45 | 2d 3h | 21,414 | 19K |
| 3 | June 21, 2017 08:30 | June 23, 2017 02:45 | 1d 18h | 20,338 | 68K |
| 4 | October 29, 2017 17:30 | October 31, 2017 04:15 | 1d 10h | 16,714 | 145K |
| 5 | April 9, 2017 07:45 | April 10, 2017 03:15 | 19h 30m | 16,397 | 40K |
| 6 | May 12, 2017 11:30 | May 12, 2017 21:30 | 10h | 14,341 | 3,700 |
| 7 | January 23, 2017 04:30 | January 25, 2017 02:30 | 1d 22h | 13,604 | 70K |
| 8 | March 14, 2017 12:30 | March 15, 2017 01:45 | 13h 15m | 13,443 | 43K |
| 9 | September 12, 2017 11:45 | September 12, 2017 22:45 | 11h | 12,967 | 7,134 |
| 10 | February 27, 2017 14:45 | February 28, 2017 04:15 | 13h 30m | 11,336 | 8,909 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 286 reached 100+ customers, 124 reached 1,000+ customers, 11 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.26 | 2.2 hrs | 1.19 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 66 min | 0.87 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county