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2019 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 572K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1535th 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 Somerset 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 | February 25, 2019 00:15 | February 28, 2019 02:45 | 3d 2h | 9,880 | 67K |
| 2 | October 20, 2019 13:30 | October 21, 2019 22:45 | 1d 9h | 8,739 | 14K |
| 3 | October 31, 2019 11:30 | November 4, 2019 11:00 | 3d 23h | 8,720 | 41K |
| 4 | July 21, 2019 11:45 | July 26, 2019 02:30 | 4d 14h | 6,484 | 100K |
| 5 | August 18, 2019 01:15 | August 19, 2019 12:00 | 1d 10h | 6,304 | 21K |
| 6 | January 30, 2019 19:30 | January 31, 2019 08:15 | 12h 45m | 6,239 | 3,173 |
| 7 | December 7, 2019 06:00 | December 7, 2019 07:30 | 1h 30m | 5,805 | 8,708 |
| 8 | October 7, 2019 11:00 | October 7, 2019 19:15 | 8h 15m | 5,539 | 7,802 |
| 9 | December 9, 2019 11:15 | December 10, 2019 01:30 | 14h 15m | 5,156 | 5,118 |
| 10 | September 26, 2019 22:15 | September 28, 2019 04:45 | 1d 6h | 4,673 | 2,251 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 143 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/somerset-county