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2022 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 314K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2628th 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 Union 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 16, 2022 11:00 | May 18, 2022 03:15 | 1d 16h | 13,042 | 4,065 |
| 2 | May 24, 2022 06:15 | May 24, 2022 06:30 | 15m | 12,450 | 3,113 |
| 3 | January 18, 2022 09:30 | January 20, 2022 11:30 | 2d 2h | 8,023 | 7,181 |
| 4 | October 11, 2022 05:00 | October 11, 2022 05:15 | 15m | 6,030 | 1,508 |
| 5 | August 22, 2022 08:00 | August 23, 2022 03:00 | 19h | 5,407 | 10K |
| 6 | July 22, 2022 11:30 | July 23, 2022 04:30 | 17h | 5,250 | 7,069 |
| 7 | April 7, 2022 13:00 | April 9, 2022 03:00 | 1d 14h | 4,090 | 14K |
| 8 | December 23, 2022 11:30 | December 27, 2022 05:15 | 3d 17h | 3,920 | 9,718 |
| 9 | April 5, 2022 04:30 | April 5, 2022 05:15 | 45m | 3,658 | 2,744 |
| 10 | February 25, 2022 12:00 | February 26, 2022 05:15 | 17h 15m | 3,349 | 3,835 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 160 reached 100+ customers, 65 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county