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2020 Hudson County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hudson County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1665th 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 Hudson 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 15:00 | August 12, 2020 03:30 | 7d 12h | 34,050 | 875K |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 19:00 | June 19, 2020 21:45 | 1d 2h | 24,153 | 28K |
| 3 | March 9, 2020 06:00 | March 9, 2020 06:15 | 15m | 11,233 | 2,808 |
| 4 | September 14, 2020 11:45 | September 14, 2020 17:45 | 6h | 10,226 | 2,580 |
| 5 | July 22, 2020 13:45 | July 24, 2020 02:45 | 1d 13h | 9,600 | 12K |
| 6 | March 3, 2020 04:30 | March 3, 2020 11:00 | 6h 30m | 9,135 | 2,290 |
| 7 | July 27, 2020 10:30 | July 28, 2020 05:00 | 18h 30m | 6,797 | 9,189 |
| 8 | July 20, 2020 06:00 | July 21, 2020 05:00 | 23h | 6,569 | 7,740 |
| 9 | July 10, 2020 20:00 | July 11, 2020 11:15 | 15h 15m | 6,453 | 5,521 |
| 10 | July 11, 2020 12:00 | July 12, 2020 10:30 | 22h 30m | 5,594 | 1,538 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 98 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Hudson 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2020 | 7.5 hrs | 1.07 | 45 min | 0.62 |
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 ÷ 299,572 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. Hudson County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hudson 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/hudson-county