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2024 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 107K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2430th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2024
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 4, 2024 10:45 | June 4, 2024 19:00 | 8h 15m | 7,024 | 1,801 |
| 2 | October 14, 2024 15:30 | October 14, 2024 18:30 | 3h | 4,440 | 4,604 |
| 3 | February 26, 2024 10:45 | February 26, 2024 16:00 | 5h 15m | 3,242 | 4,471 |
| 4 | May 28, 2024 10:45 | May 29, 2024 21:00 | 1d 10h | 2,372 | 4,348 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 23:45 | January 12, 2024 06:00 | 2d 6h | 2,130 | 13K |
| 6 | April 23, 2024 22:30 | April 23, 2024 22:45 | 15m | 2,062 | 516 |
| 7 | May 29, 2024 23:45 | May 31, 2024 05:15 | 1d 5h | 1,941 | 775 |
| 8 | June 20, 2024 12:15 | June 20, 2024 16:30 | 4h 15m | 1,885 | 508 |
| 9 | November 18, 2024 22:15 | November 22, 2024 20:45 | 3d 22h | 1,490 | 3,045 |
| 10 | September 27, 2024 12:45 | September 29, 2024 01:30 | 1d 12h | 1,365 | 4,047 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 61 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.84 | 50 min | 0.67 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/new-jersey/cape-may-county