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2023 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2158th 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 Salem 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 23, 2023 21:45 | July 24, 2023 00:45 | 3h | 2,850 | 3,779 |
| 2 | June 12, 2023 16:45 | June 13, 2023 05:00 | 12h 15m | 2,771 | 2,578 |
| 3 | June 27, 2023 06:30 | June 27, 2023 16:00 | 9h 30m | 2,575 | 1,753 |
| 4 | September 22, 2023 14:15 | September 22, 2023 20:30 | 6h 15m | 1,955 | 512 |
| 5 | July 29, 2023 01:15 | July 31, 2023 16:00 | 2d 14h | 1,916 | 14K |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 22:45 | August 9, 2023 21:30 | 1d 22h | 1,492 | 6,541 |
| 7 | February 19, 2023 02:00 | February 19, 2023 20:00 | 18h | 1,376 | 415 |
| 8 | December 15, 2023 20:45 | December 15, 2023 23:15 | 2h 30m | 1,216 | 1,927 |
| 9 | January 26, 2023 18:15 | January 27, 2023 04:45 | 10h 30m | 1,174 | 1,212 |
| 10 | August 27, 2023 02:45 | August 27, 2023 15:45 | 13h | 1,121 | 949 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 50 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county