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2022 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.2 hours, a total of 725K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2216th 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 Ocean 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 | January 25, 2022 10:30 | January 27, 2022 07:00 | 1d 20h | 16,632 | 26K |
| 2 | August 5, 2022 20:15 | August 7, 2022 12:45 | 1d 16h | 13,497 | 16K |
| 3 | September 12, 2022 10:15 | September 13, 2022 10:30 | 1d | 10,107 | 6,200 |
| 4 | September 6, 2022 13:30 | September 9, 2022 11:30 | 2d 22h | 10,076 | 22K |
| 5 | September 10, 2022 09:45 | September 10, 2022 23:30 | 13h 45m | 9,472 | 8,725 |
| 6 | May 31, 2022 11:15 | June 5, 2022 09:00 | 4d 21h | 9,207 | 43K |
| 7 | November 7, 2022 12:45 | November 9, 2022 06:15 | 1d 17h | 8,517 | 6,288 |
| 8 | February 2, 2022 14:30 | February 3, 2022 10:00 | 19h 30m | 6,879 | 4,074 |
| 9 | June 9, 2022 09:45 | June 16, 2022 06:15 | 6d 20h | 6,071 | 36K |
| 10 | March 16, 2022 10:30 | March 17, 2022 07:15 | 20h 45m | 5,707 | 6,216 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 170 reached 100+ customers, 79 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2022 | 51 min | 0.65 | 51 min | 0.65 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county