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2022 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 549K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2536th 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 Essex 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 | March 6, 2022 13:45 | March 10, 2022 07:00 | 3d 17h | 25,311 | 17K |
| 2 | May 21, 2022 03:45 | May 25, 2022 01:45 | 3d 22h | 15,600 | 12K |
| 3 | November 6, 2022 23:45 | November 7, 2022 04:30 | 4h 45m | 11,613 | 3,636 |
| 4 | August 7, 2022 14:15 | August 12, 2022 11:00 | 4d 20h | 11,285 | 41K |
| 5 | September 5, 2022 04:15 | September 9, 2022 03:45 | 3d 23h | 8,727 | 11K |
| 6 | December 21, 2022 23:45 | December 31, 2022 03:30 | 9d 3h | 6,770 | 44K |
| 7 | June 26, 2022 15:45 | June 27, 2022 12:00 | 20h 15m | 6,668 | 5,081 |
| 8 | May 31, 2022 11:30 | June 1, 2022 21:15 | 1d 9h | 5,704 | 6,287 |
| 9 | April 27, 2022 09:45 | April 29, 2022 12:15 | 2d 2h | 5,057 | 6,013 |
| 10 | August 15, 2022 02:00 | August 18, 2022 16:30 | 3d 14h | 5,007 | 4,940 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 117 reached 100+ customers, 73 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2022 | 34 min | 0.55 | 34 min | 0.55 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county