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2023 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 9.4 hours, a total of 530K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 893rd 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 Cape May 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 7, 2023 15:00 | July 9, 2023 14:30 | 1d 23h | 24,403 | 421K |
| 2 | July 12, 2023 19:45 | July 13, 2023 04:00 | 8h 15m | 3,088 | 819 |
| 3 | August 26, 2023 14:45 | August 27, 2023 23:00 | 1d 8h | 3,018 | 2,061 |
| 4 | September 10, 2023 12:30 | September 10, 2023 19:45 | 7h 15m | 2,925 | 5,222 |
| 5 | July 23, 2023 08:45 | July 23, 2023 17:30 | 8h 45m | 2,096 | 3,321 |
| 6 | September 23, 2023 05:00 | September 25, 2023 04:00 | 1d 23h | 1,960 | 11K |
| 7 | March 14, 2023 18:00 | March 15, 2023 07:15 | 13h 15m | 1,946 | 979 |
| 8 | September 18, 2023 02:45 | September 19, 2023 01:30 | 22h 45m | 1,831 | 902 |
| 9 | December 27, 2023 14:00 | December 27, 2023 20:30 | 6h 30m | 1,706 | 476 |
| 10 | June 12, 2023 21:15 | June 13, 2023 09:30 | 12h 15m | 1,607 | 1,526 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 77 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 Cape May 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.66 | 53 min | 0.59 |
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 ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May 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/cape-may-county