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2023 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 457K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2643rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bergen County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 27, 2023 06:00 | August 1, 2023 08:30 | 5d 2h | 11,102 | 36K |
| 2 | September 8, 2023 12:30 | September 11, 2023 08:15 | 2d 19h | 7,415 | 38K |
| 3 | December 17, 2023 17:00 | December 22, 2023 04:00 | 4d 11h | 6,603 | 63K |
| 4 | September 12, 2023 09:45 | September 17, 2023 03:30 | 4d 17h | 6,459 | 7,590 |
| 5 | September 21, 2023 11:15 | September 21, 2023 20:30 | 9h 15m | 5,154 | 2,988 |
| 6 | December 1, 2023 09:15 | December 3, 2023 03:45 | 1d 18h | 4,998 | 8,615 |
| 7 | February 1, 2023 12:30 | February 6, 2023 04:30 | 4d 16h | 4,552 | 16K |
| 8 | June 23, 2023 13:00 | June 25, 2023 14:15 | 2d 1h | 4,070 | 2,690 |
| 9 | November 16, 2023 12:30 | November 18, 2023 02:15 | 1d 13h | 3,932 | 1,358 |
| 10 | June 12, 2023 14:15 | June 13, 2023 08:00 | 17h 45m | 3,931 | 7,025 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 197 reached 100+ customers, 68 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 Bergen County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 38 min | 0.57 | 36 min | 0.55 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Park Ridge - (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 n/a of New Jersey's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 418,357 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. Bergen County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bergen County, NJ annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/new-jersey/bergen-county