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2019 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 508K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2062nd 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 Union 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 | June 6, 2019 01:15 | June 6, 2019 17:00 | 15h 45m | 12,127 | 4,995 |
| 2 | June 29, 2019 11:15 | July 4, 2019 23:15 | 5d 12h | 11,508 | 134K |
| 3 | April 21, 2019 09:15 | April 21, 2019 09:30 | 15m | 10,559 | 2,640 |
| 4 | April 22, 2019 15:30 | April 23, 2019 01:00 | 9h 30m | 9,584 | 13K |
| 5 | September 23, 2019 22:45 | September 24, 2019 08:30 | 9h 45m | 9,425 | 8,765 |
| 6 | June 21, 2019 15:30 | June 22, 2019 07:00 | 15h 30m | 8,763 | 2,817 |
| 7 | February 25, 2019 03:00 | February 27, 2019 19:15 | 2d 16h | 8,045 | 36K |
| 8 | August 6, 2019 12:00 | August 9, 2019 10:15 | 2d 22h | 7,602 | 24K |
| 9 | June 4, 2019 05:45 | June 4, 2019 06:00 | 15m | 7,282 | 1,821 |
| 10 | June 24, 2019 10:45 | June 25, 2019 03:15 | 16h 30m | 6,541 | 6,336 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 156 reached 100+ customers, 71 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county