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2020 Monmouth County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Monmouth County, NJ went without power for an average of 33.5 hours, a total of 11.6M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 242nd 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 Monmouth 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 2, 2020 02:45 | August 24, 2020 10:00 | 22d 7h | 202,864 | 10.4M |
| 2 | December 24, 2020 13:00 | December 30, 2020 04:00 | 5d 15h | 24,599 | 305K |
| 3 | June 17, 2020 11:00 | July 12, 2020 06:15 | 24d 19h | 22,599 | 121K |
| 4 | November 30, 2020 12:45 | December 1, 2020 08:15 | 19h 30m | 15,531 | 12K |
| 5 | July 22, 2020 09:45 | July 26, 2020 01:45 | 3d 16h | 12,679 | 104K |
| 6 | February 21, 2020 12:00 | February 24, 2020 11:15 | 2d 23h | 10,769 | 38K |
| 7 | September 11, 2020 12:15 | September 12, 2020 05:15 | 17h | 10,484 | 6,490 |
| 8 | July 12, 2020 15:15 | July 16, 2020 09:45 | 3d 18h | 9,003 | 6,226 |
| 9 | April 12, 2020 15:15 | April 15, 2020 09:15 | 2d 18h | 8,972 | 53K |
| 10 | March 16, 2020 12:00 | March 17, 2020 22:30 | 1d 10h | 6,182 | 8,538 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 151 reached 100+ customers, 63 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 Monmouth 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 |
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 ÷ 345,701 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. Monmouth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Monmouth 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/monmouth-county