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2018 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 463rd 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 Somerset 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 18, 2018 16:45 | 12d 13h | 28,201 | 1.3M |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 14:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 10h | 10,458 | 469K |
| 3 | May 23, 2018 09:00 | May 24, 2018 10:00 | 1d 1h | 9,015 | 2,854 |
| 4 | June 10, 2018 06:15 | June 10, 2018 17:00 | 10h 45m | 6,148 | 9,453 |
| 5 | May 11, 2018 09:45 | May 11, 2018 18:30 | 8h 45m | 5,756 | 1,448 |
| 6 | April 17, 2018 06:45 | April 17, 2018 07:00 | 15m | 5,170 | 1,293 |
| 7 | August 16, 2018 10:30 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 2d | 2,917 | 7,018 |
| 8 | December 18, 2018 21:15 | December 18, 2018 21:30 | 15m | 2,872 | 718 |
| 9 | July 17, 2018 07:30 | July 18, 2018 19:45 | 1d 12h | 2,849 | 4,562 |
| 10 | October 15, 2018 11:45 | October 15, 2018 22:30 | 10h 45m | 2,790 | 7,692 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 148 reached 100+ customers, 55 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county