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2022 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 390K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2196th 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 Somerset 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 | October 14, 2022 01:45 | October 14, 2022 11:45 | 10h | 7,956 | 8,055 |
| 2 | November 16, 2022 04:15 | November 17, 2022 01:30 | 21h 15m | 7,954 | 2,913 |
| 3 | May 30, 2022 22:00 | June 4, 2022 04:45 | 4d 6h | 4,497 | 12K |
| 4 | May 17, 2022 06:15 | May 17, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 4,259 | 1,065 |
| 5 | October 1, 2022 07:30 | October 6, 2022 06:30 | 4d 23h | 4,251 | 9,740 |
| 6 | October 19, 2022 15:30 | October 20, 2022 01:45 | 10h 15m | 4,003 | 16K |
| 7 | September 25, 2022 22:30 | September 27, 2022 18:30 | 1d 20h | 3,440 | 1,285 |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 07:15 | December 28, 2022 19:15 | 5d 12h | 3,432 | 85K |
| 9 | May 21, 2022 21:45 | May 23, 2022 16:30 | 1d 18h | 3,198 | 5,711 |
| 10 | December 7, 2022 18:45 | December 7, 2022 19:45 | 1h | 3,173 | 796 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 140 reached 100+ customers, 50 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county