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2024 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 910K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2312th 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 Essex 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 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | July 14, 2024 19:00 | 51d 9h | 25,596 | 293K |
| 2 | January 5, 2024 05:00 | January 13, 2024 00:15 | 7d 19h | 7,385 | 27K |
| 3 | May 20, 2024 11:30 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 3d 12h | 6,490 | 54K |
| 4 | March 31, 2024 20:15 | April 7, 2024 16:15 | 6d 20h | 5,454 | 63K |
| 5 | February 27, 2024 13:15 | March 5, 2024 10:15 | 6d 21h | 5,412 | 15K |
| 6 | March 18, 2024 08:00 | March 19, 2024 02:15 | 18h 15m | 3,695 | 8,474 |
| 7 | January 22, 2024 05:45 | January 27, 2024 15:15 | 5d 9h | 3,539 | 18K |
| 8 | April 10, 2024 12:30 | April 13, 2024 05:00 | 2d 16h | 3,425 | 2,460 |
| 9 | April 22, 2024 12:00 | April 24, 2024 04:30 | 1d 16h | 3,322 | 4,747 |
| 10 | November 21, 2024 07:45 | November 30, 2024 03:30 | 8d 19h | 3,227 | 28K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 57 reached 100+ customers, 38 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2024 | 45 min | 0.57 | 39 min | 0.55 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.46 | 4.2 hrs | 1.95 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county