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2023 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.0 hours, a total of 522K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 775th 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 Sussex 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 | September 7, 2023 17:30 | September 12, 2023 13:30 | 4d 20h | 8,270 | 52K |
| 2 | December 18, 2023 04:15 | December 19, 2023 17:45 | 1d 13h | 8,214 | 38K |
| 3 | July 12, 2023 20:00 | July 17, 2023 05:45 | 4d 9h | 7,510 | 67K |
| 4 | June 20, 2023 19:30 | June 21, 2023 03:00 | 7h 30m | 6,296 | 1,722 |
| 5 | September 24, 2023 08:15 | September 24, 2023 09:00 | 45m | 6,052 | 1,515 |
| 6 | March 29, 2023 10:15 | March 29, 2023 16:00 | 5h 45m | 5,053 | 4,480 |
| 7 | June 24, 2023 10:45 | June 26, 2023 11:00 | 2d | 4,867 | 6,729 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 15:15 | July 26, 2023 10:00 | 18h 45m | 4,509 | 17K |
| 9 | November 21, 2023 23:00 | November 23, 2023 04:45 | 1d 5h | 4,278 | 12K |
| 10 | June 26, 2023 13:15 | June 29, 2023 07:45 | 2d 18h | 4,187 | 40K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 139 reached 100+ customers, 53 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county