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2019 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 135K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1879th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 5, 2019 11:30 | April 5, 2019 11:45 | 15m | 11,879 | 2,970 |
| 2 | March 20, 2019 16:30 | March 20, 2019 21:00 | 4h 30m | 8,099 | 6,659 |
| 3 | September 5, 2019 22:00 | September 6, 2019 01:00 | 3h | 7,223 | 10K |
| 4 | April 24, 2019 21:45 | April 25, 2019 00:45 | 3h | 7,188 | 7,423 |
| 5 | May 26, 2019 13:45 | May 27, 2019 07:45 | 18h | 3,465 | 4,864 |
| 6 | May 15, 2019 22:45 | May 15, 2019 23:45 | 1h | 3,316 | 890 |
| 7 | January 22, 2019 08:00 | January 22, 2019 10:45 | 2h 45m | 3,207 | 854 |
| 8 | February 13, 2019 16:00 | February 13, 2019 18:00 | 2h | 2,695 | 676 |
| 9 | August 10, 2019 02:00 | August 10, 2019 15:15 | 13h 15m | 2,575 | 1,034 |
| 10 | October 3, 2019 19:15 | October 4, 2019 06:00 | 10h 45m | 2,503 | 9,423 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 76 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 2019, 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 98% of New Jersey's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/new-jersey/cape-may-county