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2024 Somerset County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Somerset County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 569K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2019th 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 Somerset 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 | July 9, 2024 20:30 | July 11, 2024 03:00 | 1d 6h | 13,434 | 15K |
| 2 | June 19, 2024 16:30 | July 2, 2024 08:00 | 12d 15h | 7,867 | 115K |
| 3 | July 16, 2024 09:45 | July 20, 2024 14:00 | 4d 4h | 5,580 | 52K |
| 4 | February 12, 2024 13:45 | February 15, 2024 11:45 | 2d 22h | 5,322 | 6,424 |
| 5 | May 17, 2024 17:15 | May 17, 2024 20:15 | 3h | 5,273 | 1,330 |
| 6 | August 6, 2024 16:15 | August 16, 2024 08:15 | 9d 16h | 4,938 | 37K |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 21:45 | January 13, 2024 04:15 | 3d 6h | 4,549 | 51K |
| 8 | February 20, 2024 10:00 | February 20, 2024 10:15 | 15m | 3,429 | 857 |
| 9 | January 13, 2024 05:00 | January 17, 2024 01:15 | 3d 20h | 3,359 | 15K |
| 10 | October 18, 2024 14:30 | October 20, 2024 07:45 | 1d 17h | 3,033 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 131 reached 100+ customers, 47 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 Somerset 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 ÷ 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, 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/somerset-county