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2018 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1461st 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 Middlesex 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 17, 2018 05:30 | 11d 2h | 26,861 | 572K |
| 2 | February 14, 2018 10:15 | February 14, 2018 23:45 | 13h 30m | 12,954 | 4,143 |
| 3 | April 12, 2018 20:00 | April 18, 2018 04:15 | 5d 8h | 9,596 | 68K |
| 4 | October 30, 2018 11:45 | October 31, 2018 10:30 | 22h 45m | 8,094 | 2,280 |
| 5 | May 23, 2018 11:30 | May 24, 2018 03:15 | 15h 45m | 7,999 | 2,203 |
| 6 | May 19, 2018 06:30 | May 19, 2018 06:45 | 15m | 7,973 | 1,993 |
| 7 | April 10, 2018 09:45 | April 12, 2018 11:30 | 2d 1h | 7,865 | 14K |
| 8 | January 15, 2018 08:15 | January 15, 2018 22:30 | 14h 15m | 7,342 | 3,353 |
| 9 | February 20, 2018 23:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 13d 1h | 7,163 | 46K |
| 10 | April 4, 2018 13:15 | April 7, 2018 03:30 | 2d 14h | 7,010 | 8,131 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 192 reached 100+ customers, 114 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county