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2020 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 3.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 671st 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 Union 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 | July 10, 2020 17:30 | August 16, 2020 06:30 | 36d 13h | 77,985 | 2.8M |
| 2 | December 9, 2020 20:45 | December 10, 2020 14:15 | 17h 30m | 12,479 | 10K |
| 3 | October 27, 2020 15:00 | October 28, 2020 15:30 | 1d | 10,719 | 7,606 |
| 4 | April 7, 2020 00:00 | April 7, 2020 02:15 | 2h 15m | 9,437 | 2,373 |
| 5 | April 15, 2020 06:30 | April 15, 2020 10:00 | 3h 30m | 9,054 | 2,267 |
| 6 | March 11, 2020 04:15 | March 11, 2020 04:30 | 15m | 6,887 | 1,722 |
| 7 | June 3, 2020 17:00 | June 5, 2020 03:15 | 1d 10h | 6,127 | 2,066 |
| 8 | June 20, 2020 21:45 | June 21, 2020 02:00 | 4h 15m | 5,604 | 1,442 |
| 9 | October 6, 2020 10:00 | October 6, 2020 21:45 | 11h 45m | 5,122 | 1,331 |
| 10 | August 31, 2020 09:30 | September 2, 2020 04:15 | 1d 18h | 4,761 | 6,308 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 148 reached 100+ customers, 60 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county