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2020 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 23.1 hours, a total of 7.6M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 369th 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 Ocean 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 3, 2020 01:15 | August 11, 2020 07:30 | 8d 6h | 216,332 | 6.1M |
| 2 | June 3, 2020 13:45 | June 9, 2020 03:30 | 5d 13h | 50,457 | 504K |
| 3 | August 12, 2020 11:15 | August 13, 2020 11:15 | 1d | 46,063 | 57K |
| 4 | December 15, 2020 12:30 | December 16, 2020 04:00 | 15h 30m | 20,287 | 24K |
| 5 | August 28, 2020 12:00 | September 1, 2020 15:45 | 4d 3h | 20,018 | 77K |
| 6 | May 27, 2020 10:15 | May 27, 2020 10:45 | 30m | 13,697 | 5,935 |
| 7 | July 8, 2020 14:00 | July 12, 2020 05:45 | 3d 15h | 12,126 | 22K |
| 8 | April 21, 2020 12:45 | April 23, 2020 02:45 | 1d 14h | 12,065 | 63K |
| 9 | July 5, 2020 20:00 | July 8, 2020 05:15 | 2d 9h | 11,969 | 34K |
| 10 | December 25, 2020 02:00 | December 28, 2020 03:00 | 3d 1h | 11,455 | 64K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 213 reached 100+ customers, 112 reached 1,000+ customers, 12 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2020 | 36.6 hrs | 2.74 | 3.1 hrs | 1.69 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2020 | 9.2 hrs | 1.47 | 68 min | 0.81 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county