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2023 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1718th 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 Ocean 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 | August 14, 2023 06:00 | August 15, 2023 05:15 | 23h 15m | 18,376 | 35K |
| 2 | April 1, 2023 19:00 | April 6, 2023 01:30 | 4d 6h | 14,589 | 317K |
| 3 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 22, 2023 07:15 | 2d 17h | 13,519 | 19K |
| 4 | August 20, 2023 13:15 | August 22, 2023 23:45 | 2d 10h | 9,993 | 119K |
| 5 | March 14, 2023 14:15 | March 15, 2023 09:15 | 19h | 9,303 | 8,353 |
| 6 | December 18, 2023 02:45 | December 22, 2023 08:15 | 4d 5h | 9,064 | 36K |
| 7 | July 9, 2023 10:45 | July 14, 2023 07:30 | 4d 20h | 8,493 | 19K |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 13:45 | July 18, 2023 08:00 | 3d 18h | 8,023 | 125K |
| 9 | August 18, 2023 17:45 | August 20, 2023 12:00 | 1d 18h | 7,428 | 35K |
| 10 | July 25, 2023 10:15 | July 31, 2023 04:15 | 5d 18h | 7,379 | 37K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 184 reached 100+ customers, 77 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.67 | 3.7 hrs | 1.56 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.66 | 53 min | 0.59 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county