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2023 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 557K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2508th 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 Essex 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 | April 14, 2023 12:30 | April 15, 2023 20:30 | 1d 8h | 28,478 | 15K |
| 2 | September 11, 2023 04:15 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 6d 15h | 11,848 | 11K |
| 3 | September 8, 2023 05:00 | September 11, 2023 02:45 | 2d 21h | 10,802 | 49K |
| 4 | October 12, 2023 10:15 | October 15, 2023 04:15 | 2d 18h | 10,575 | 4,892 |
| 5 | February 6, 2023 04:00 | February 7, 2023 06:00 | 1d 2h | 9,179 | 4,747 |
| 6 | April 27, 2023 20:15 | May 6, 2023 09:45 | 8d 13h | 7,558 | 26K |
| 7 | September 18, 2023 08:15 | October 1, 2023 02:15 | 12d 18h | 6,976 | 35K |
| 8 | December 17, 2023 11:00 | December 25, 2023 16:00 | 8d 5h | 6,084 | 22K |
| 9 | June 26, 2023 12:15 | July 2, 2023 03:45 | 5d 15h | 5,614 | 6,598 |
| 10 | July 24, 2023 12:30 | July 31, 2023 01:15 | 6d 12h | 5,371 | 24K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 124 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 Essex 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.67 | 3.7 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 n/a of New Jersey's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county