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2021 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2250th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2021
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 30, 2021 21:00 | August 31, 2021 07:30 | 10h 30m | 9,482 | 19K |
| 2 | June 9, 2021 15:00 | June 10, 2021 01:30 | 10h 30m | 3,598 | 5,499 |
| 3 | October 31, 2021 15:00 | October 31, 2021 23:15 | 8h 15m | 3,532 | 3,028 |
| 4 | July 9, 2021 02:45 | July 10, 2021 02:00 | 23h 15m | 2,724 | 5,604 |
| 5 | May 26, 2021 14:00 | May 26, 2021 19:45 | 5h 45m | 2,510 | 650 |
| 6 | October 29, 2021 13:15 | October 31, 2021 10:15 | 1d 21h | 2,173 | 13K |
| 7 | March 13, 2021 16:30 | March 13, 2021 23:30 | 7h | 1,917 | 505 |
| 8 | September 28, 2021 11:30 | September 28, 2021 11:45 | 15m | 1,913 | 478 |
| 9 | December 15, 2021 12:45 | December 15, 2021 13:00 | 15m | 1,900 | 475 |
| 10 | May 6, 2021 16:15 | May 6, 2021 18:30 | 2h 15m | 1,717 | 1,790 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 56 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2021 | 64 min | 0.71 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/new-jersey/cape-may-county