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2020 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1021st 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 Salem 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 13:30 | August 10, 2020 10:15 | 5d 20h | 7,897 | 146K |
| 2 | January 23, 2020 18:30 | January 23, 2020 22:00 | 3h 30m | 3,734 | 977 |
| 3 | December 25, 2020 01:45 | December 29, 2020 00:45 | 3d 23h | 2,879 | 41K |
| 4 | August 28, 2020 14:30 | August 29, 2020 23:00 | 1d 8h | 2,738 | 3,762 |
| 5 | August 30, 2020 04:45 | August 30, 2020 06:30 | 1h 45m | 2,670 | 4,673 |
| 6 | September 30, 2020 03:45 | September 30, 2020 23:30 | 19h 45m | 2,621 | 4,228 |
| 7 | November 15, 2020 22:00 | November 16, 2020 23:45 | 1d 1h | 2,457 | 6,799 |
| 8 | April 9, 2020 18:45 | April 11, 2020 18:15 | 1d 23h | 2,261 | 4,172 |
| 9 | February 22, 2020 06:45 | February 22, 2020 15:30 | 8h 45m | 2,158 | 1,827 |
| 10 | February 7, 2020 09:45 | February 8, 2020 18:30 | 1d 8h | 2,146 | 2,924 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 64 reached 100+ customers, 24 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county