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2020 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 13.1 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 624th 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 Somerset 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 07:45 | August 15, 2020 23:45 | 11d 16h | 36,937 | 2.0M |
| 2 | October 19, 2020 16:00 | October 20, 2020 10:45 | 18h 45m | 12,218 | 31K |
| 3 | April 16, 2020 22:30 | May 7, 2020 20:30 | 20d 22h | 11,197 | 20K |
| 4 | February 15, 2020 17:00 | February 15, 2020 23:45 | 6h 45m | 8,959 | 2,478 |
| 5 | October 5, 2020 23:00 | October 6, 2020 05:30 | 6h 30m | 7,360 | 1,865 |
| 6 | November 14, 2020 13:45 | November 17, 2020 23:15 | 3d 9h | 4,806 | 16K |
| 7 | November 1, 2020 15:45 | November 5, 2020 01:45 | 3d 10h | 4,449 | 11K |
| 8 | September 4, 2020 00:30 | September 4, 2020 02:30 | 2h | 3,389 | 852 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 07:15 | April 13, 2020 11:00 | 3h 45m | 3,321 | 7,400 |
| 10 | July 20, 2020 16:15 | July 26, 2020 10:15 | 5d 18h | 2,780 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 108 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county