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2023 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 367K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2234th 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 Somerset 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 | June 25, 2023 18:45 | June 30, 2023 04:15 | 4d 9h | 12,827 | 77K |
| 2 | November 6, 2023 07:45 | November 6, 2023 08:00 | 15m | 11,797 | 2,949 |
| 3 | May 8, 2023 05:15 | May 8, 2023 08:30 | 3h 15m | 7,204 | 5,425 |
| 4 | August 2, 2023 09:15 | August 2, 2023 18:00 | 8h 45m | 7,169 | 2,811 |
| 5 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 12, 2023 12:30 | 22h 45m | 4,180 | 14K |
| 6 | April 25, 2023 08:30 | April 25, 2023 09:30 | 1h | 4,113 | 3,483 |
| 7 | December 18, 2023 06:45 | December 20, 2023 10:45 | 2d 4h | 3,681 | 25K |
| 8 | July 27, 2023 16:30 | July 29, 2023 18:45 | 2d 2h | 3,095 | 4,414 |
| 9 | December 2, 2023 13:15 | December 2, 2023 22:15 | 9h | 3,045 | 7,951 |
| 10 | August 12, 2023 19:30 | August 15, 2023 03:00 | 2d 7h | 2,634 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 135 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 172,530 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. Somerset County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Somerset 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/somerset-county