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2022 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 0.9 hours, a total of 374K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2723rd 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 Middlesex 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 | May 7, 2022 11:15 | May 8, 2022 23:30 | 1d 12h | 17,188 | 9,195 |
| 2 | December 7, 2022 09:00 | December 8, 2022 02:45 | 17h 45m | 9,251 | 5,634 |
| 3 | January 7, 2022 14:00 | January 9, 2022 03:15 | 1d 13h | 8,740 | 7,484 |
| 4 | August 21, 2022 21:15 | August 23, 2022 02:30 | 1d 5h | 6,906 | 4,292 |
| 5 | January 16, 2022 12:45 | January 22, 2022 01:45 | 5d 13h | 5,889 | 5,589 |
| 6 | September 20, 2022 12:45 | September 23, 2022 02:30 | 2d 13h | 5,805 | 3,650 |
| 7 | June 22, 2022 09:30 | June 23, 2022 06:15 | 20h 45m | 4,814 | 3,099 |
| 8 | August 4, 2022 12:00 | August 6, 2022 06:00 | 1d 18h | 4,682 | 31K |
| 9 | April 17, 2022 07:00 | April 17, 2022 18:00 | 11h | 3,837 | 7,736 |
| 10 | July 4, 2022 11:00 | July 6, 2022 10:15 | 1d 23h | 3,652 | 9,175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 192 reached 100+ customers, 66 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county