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2018 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 198K customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1357th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2018
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 7, 2018 16:45 | March 8, 2018 03:15 | 10h 30m | 12,484 | 3,284 |
| 2 | July 20, 2018 14:00 | July 20, 2018 20:15 | 6h 15m | 7,180 | 16K |
| 3 | June 24, 2018 13:45 | June 24, 2018 16:15 | 2h 30m | 6,144 | 5,222 |
| 4 | December 27, 2018 22:15 | December 28, 2018 10:15 | 12h | 5,171 | 10K |
| 5 | December 11, 2018 14:15 | December 11, 2018 17:30 | 3h 15m | 4,270 | 1,070 |
| 6 | March 2, 2018 12:30 | March 5, 2018 07:30 | 2d 19h | 4,193 | 34K |
| 7 | June 5, 2018 04:45 | June 7, 2018 00:30 | 1d 19h | 3,919 | 11K |
| 8 | July 21, 2018 12:30 | July 24, 2018 04:30 | 2d 16h | 3,655 | 4,111 |
| 9 | August 22, 2018 03:00 | August 22, 2018 11:00 | 8h | 3,526 | 3,650 |
| 10 | January 30, 2018 08:00 | January 30, 2018 13:30 | 5h 30m | 3,223 | 3,510 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 89 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 76 min | 0.90 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/new-jersey/cape-may-county