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2017 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 9.5 hours, a total of 452K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 561st 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 Sussex 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 | February 12, 2017 22:30 | February 15, 2017 02:30 | 2d 4h | 13,358 | 45K |
| 2 | October 24, 2017 11:45 | October 25, 2017 01:30 | 13h 45m | 12,866 | 11K |
| 3 | June 22, 2017 17:15 | June 23, 2017 03:45 | 10h 30m | 12,631 | 7,326 |
| 4 | February 25, 2017 22:30 | February 27, 2017 07:45 | 1d 9h | 12,530 | 68K |
| 5 | March 2, 2017 08:15 | March 3, 2017 06:30 | 22h 15m | 7,063 | 16K |
| 6 | October 25, 2017 13:00 | October 25, 2017 19:30 | 6h 30m | 6,154 | 1,631 |
| 7 | August 16, 2017 12:45 | August 16, 2017 20:15 | 7h 30m | 6,136 | 15K |
| 8 | August 2, 2017 15:15 | August 3, 2017 12:30 | 21h 15m | 5,598 | 9,830 |
| 9 | October 22, 2017 02:15 | October 23, 2017 10:00 | 1d 7h | 5,478 | 6,470 |
| 10 | May 5, 2017 18:15 | May 5, 2017 22:00 | 3h 45m | 5,182 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 151 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county