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2020 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 36.7 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 221st 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 Sussex 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 03:15 | August 11, 2020 02:15 | 6d 23h | 29,186 | 1.4M |
| 2 | August 13, 2020 14:00 | August 13, 2020 23:00 | 9h | 11,041 | 4,657 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 10:00 | April 15, 2020 01:45 | 1d 15h | 7,127 | 30K |
| 4 | May 29, 2020 19:00 | May 30, 2020 22:30 | 1d 3h | 6,801 | 9,672 |
| 5 | January 8, 2020 12:30 | January 8, 2020 14:45 | 2h 15m | 6,767 | 4,795 |
| 6 | June 28, 2020 17:00 | June 29, 2020 20:15 | 1d 3h | 6,137 | 7,311 |
| 7 | May 2, 2020 10:00 | May 2, 2020 10:45 | 45m | 6,097 | 2,224 |
| 8 | December 24, 2020 23:00 | December 27, 2020 03:00 | 2d 4h | 6,017 | 15K |
| 9 | September 20, 2020 07:45 | September 20, 2020 16:30 | 8h 45m | 5,919 | 20K |
| 10 | January 5, 2020 06:15 | January 5, 2020 21:15 | 15h | 5,907 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 121 reached 100+ customers, 38 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county