County annual report · FIPS 34039
2017 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 352K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1893rd 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 Union 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 | October 24, 2017 06:00 | October 24, 2017 08:15 | 2h 15m | 9,372 | 21K |
| 2 | September 12, 2017 16:00 | September 13, 2017 03:15 | 11h 15m | 8,835 | 2,239 |
| 3 | August 18, 2017 23:30 | August 20, 2017 18:00 | 1d 18h | 8,674 | 2,675 |
| 4 | November 1, 2017 19:45 | November 2, 2017 09:45 | 14h | 7,209 | 2,640 |
| 5 | November 28, 2017 19:00 | November 29, 2017 16:00 | 21h | 6,669 | 1,693 |
| 6 | July 28, 2017 13:15 | July 29, 2017 03:45 | 14h 30m | 5,769 | 13K |
| 7 | September 13, 2017 11:45 | September 14, 2017 01:00 | 13h 15m | 5,379 | 1,406 |
| 8 | January 3, 2017 14:00 | January 4, 2017 01:45 | 11h 45m | 4,716 | 2,238 |
| 9 | May 24, 2017 08:45 | May 24, 2017 09:00 | 15m | 4,716 | 1,179 |
| 10 | May 13, 2017 15:15 | May 15, 2017 11:45 | 1d 20h | 4,110 | 4,097 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 197 reached 100+ customers, 79 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county