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2020 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 17.7 hours, a total of 994K customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 478th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 13:15 | August 12, 2020 05:45 | 7d 16h | 26,404 | 743K |
| 2 | April 13, 2020 10:45 | April 16, 2020 01:15 | 2d 14h | 17,667 | 162K |
| 3 | August 17, 2020 13:45 | August 18, 2020 06:15 | 16h 30m | 8,785 | 2,377 |
| 4 | December 25, 2020 00:45 | December 27, 2020 04:45 | 2d 4h | 3,113 | 11K |
| 5 | February 7, 2020 12:45 | February 8, 2020 18:30 | 1d 5h | 2,881 | 6,840 |
| 6 | April 24, 2020 00:00 | April 24, 2020 05:00 | 5h | 2,061 | 1,144 |
| 7 | September 21, 2020 08:00 | September 21, 2020 10:30 | 2h 30m | 1,900 | 3,801 |
| 8 | July 1, 2020 18:30 | July 2, 2020 11:30 | 17h | 1,711 | 3,700 |
| 9 | May 21, 2020 01:30 | May 21, 2020 14:30 | 13h | 1,704 | 2,446 |
| 10 | July 6, 2020 13:00 | July 8, 2020 02:00 | 1d 13h | 1,562 | 4,390 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 61 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 9.2 hrs | 1.47 | 68 min | 0.81 |
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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/new-jersey/cape-may-county