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2019 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 814K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2017th 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 Essex 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 | July 27, 2019 19:00 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 156d 5h | 26,828 | 421K |
| 2 | May 18, 2019 02:00 | July 8, 2019 01:30 | 50d 23h | 10,797 | 98K |
| 3 | April 14, 2019 19:30 | May 18, 2019 01:00 | 33d 5h | 10,168 | 54K |
| 4 | July 8, 2019 04:00 | July 27, 2019 18:15 | 19d 14h | 4,917 | 73K |
| 5 | March 1, 2019 11:45 | March 9, 2019 11:45 | 8d | 3,655 | 20K |
| 6 | February 20, 2019 06:30 | February 20, 2019 07:45 | 1h 15m | 3,389 | 1,622 |
| 7 | April 5, 2019 11:45 | April 6, 2019 04:45 | 17h | 3,024 | 2,587 |
| 8 | March 14, 2019 06:30 | March 19, 2019 02:00 | 4d 19h | 2,934 | 20K |
| 9 | February 24, 2019 09:30 | February 28, 2019 04:30 | 3d 19h | 2,598 | 25K |
| 10 | January 30, 2019 11:30 | February 10, 2019 10:30 | 10d 23h | 2,331 | 22K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 34 reached 100+ customers, 20 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 98% of New Jersey's customers in 2019; 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, 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/essex-county