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2022 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 98K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2388th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 8, 2022 20:30 | December 9, 2022 05:30 | 9h | 9,378 | 2,380 |
| 2 | March 28, 2022 20:30 | March 29, 2022 01:45 | 5h 15m | 5,451 | 1,520 |
| 3 | March 3, 2022 12:15 | March 3, 2022 19:45 | 7h 30m | 4,706 | 1,205 |
| 4 | March 12, 2022 13:15 | March 13, 2022 10:30 | 21h 15m | 3,387 | 6,279 |
| 5 | February 15, 2022 13:15 | February 15, 2022 16:45 | 3h 30m | 3,171 | 3,973 |
| 6 | June 24, 2022 07:15 | June 24, 2022 10:15 | 3h | 3,157 | 7,895 |
| 7 | September 30, 2022 23:45 | October 2, 2022 08:15 | 1d 8h | 2,597 | 7,320 |
| 8 | July 25, 2022 20:15 | July 26, 2022 03:30 | 7h 15m | 2,313 | 4,797 |
| 9 | January 3, 2022 13:30 | January 4, 2022 20:15 | 1d 6h | 2,128 | 5,028 |
| 10 | July 24, 2022 21:30 | July 25, 2022 08:30 | 11h | 2,045 | 3,608 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 57 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 51 min | 0.65 | 51 min | 0.65 |
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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/new-jersey/cape-may-county