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2018 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 871st 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 Essex 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 6, 2018 03:15 | March 24, 2018 10:00 | 18d 6h | 32,291 | 1.2M |
| 2 | September 18, 2018 04:30 | September 20, 2018 10:00 | 2d 5h | 18,395 | 18K |
| 3 | April 9, 2018 13:15 | April 13, 2018 09:45 | 3d 20h | 17,899 | 6,715 |
| 4 | February 26, 2018 13:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 7d 12h | 17,320 | 290K |
| 5 | May 13, 2018 11:45 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 11d 11h | 13,810 | 171K |
| 6 | September 20, 2018 13:30 | September 23, 2018 10:00 | 2d 20h | 12,445 | 14K |
| 7 | January 1, 2018 00:00 | January 15, 2018 11:15 | 14d 11h | 12,038 | 72K |
| 8 | June 11, 2018 01:30 | June 18, 2018 03:00 | 7d 1h | 10,080 | 16K |
| 9 | April 2, 2018 09:15 | April 8, 2018 02:45 | 5d 17h | 9,993 | 27K |
| 10 | January 25, 2018 21:15 | January 29, 2018 04:15 | 3d 7h | 7,904 | 3,273 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 73 reached 100+ customers, 49 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.08 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2018 | 21.5 hrs | 2.17 | 2.7 hrs | 1.36 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county