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2024 Middlesex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Middlesex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 718K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2474th 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 Middlesex 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 8, 2024 04:15 | May 21, 2024 12:15 | 13d 8h | 15,817 | 66K |
| 2 | June 13, 2024 07:15 | June 28, 2024 06:00 | 14d 22h | 10,949 | 82K |
| 3 | April 2, 2024 14:00 | April 8, 2024 01:15 | 5d 11h | 10,801 | 25K |
| 4 | March 10, 2024 13:45 | March 13, 2024 08:00 | 2d 18h | 10,781 | 21K |
| 5 | July 5, 2024 11:00 | July 19, 2024 12:30 | 14d 1h | 9,524 | 62K |
| 6 | January 8, 2024 21:45 | January 13, 2024 19:45 | 4d 22h | 6,446 | 61K |
| 7 | January 22, 2024 07:30 | January 22, 2024 07:45 | 15m | 5,830 | 1,458 |
| 8 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | May 28, 2024 03:15 | 3d 18h | 5,009 | 50K |
| 9 | March 17, 2024 18:30 | March 20, 2024 02:00 | 2d 7h | 4,049 | 2,607 |
| 10 | July 31, 2024 13:00 | August 13, 2024 09:00 | 12d 20h | 3,960 | 46K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 116 reached 100+ customers, 53 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Middlesex 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 |
| Borough of Milltown - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of South River - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 406,721 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. Middlesex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Middlesex 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/middlesex-county