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2020 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 3.7M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 861st 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 Middlesex 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 | July 31, 2020 05:15 | August 20, 2020 07:15 | 20d 2h | 100,804 | 3.2M |
| 2 | August 27, 2020 02:15 | August 27, 2020 16:15 | 14h | 16,341 | 4,272 |
| 3 | May 8, 2020 16:30 | June 8, 2020 06:00 | 30d 13h | 8,789 | 70K |
| 4 | December 6, 2020 15:00 | December 8, 2020 04:00 | 1d 13h | 8,619 | 6,998 |
| 5 | June 20, 2020 12:00 | June 21, 2020 05:15 | 17h 15m | 6,941 | 2,714 |
| 6 | December 1, 2020 10:45 | December 3, 2020 03:00 | 1d 16h | 6,715 | 3,593 |
| 7 | July 21, 2020 18:30 | July 26, 2020 23:00 | 5d 4h | 6,485 | 71K |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 22:00 | December 28, 2020 06:30 | 3d 8h | 6,471 | 59K |
| 9 | July 19, 2020 15:00 | July 20, 2020 09:45 | 18h 45m | 6,437 | 8,231 |
| 10 | November 9, 2020 09:30 | November 11, 2020 03:15 | 1d 17h | 4,896 | 2,039 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 183 reached 100+ customers, 84 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2020 | 36.6 hrs | 2.74 | 3.1 hrs | 1.69 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county