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2024 Union County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Union County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 474K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2460th 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 Union 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 8, 2024 13:00 | July 30, 2024 14:00 | 22d 1h | 8,976 | 32K |
| 2 | December 5, 2024 12:45 | December 9, 2024 09:00 | 3d 20h | 8,364 | 6,832 |
| 3 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | July 4, 2024 04:30 | 40d 19h | 7,008 | 171K |
| 4 | April 22, 2024 05:45 | April 22, 2024 14:00 | 8h 15m | 6,470 | 4,883 |
| 5 | August 1, 2024 12:45 | August 22, 2024 17:30 | 21d 4h | 6,022 | 53K |
| 6 | May 6, 2024 20:00 | May 8, 2024 10:45 | 1d 14h | 3,836 | 2,969 |
| 7 | December 9, 2024 12:15 | December 14, 2024 23:30 | 5d 11h | 3,212 | 9,429 |
| 8 | February 27, 2024 23:15 | February 28, 2024 09:15 | 10h | 3,128 | 6,336 |
| 9 | January 8, 2024 10:00 | January 8, 2024 10:30 | 30m | 3,075 | 1,538 |
| 10 | February 28, 2024 23:00 | March 2, 2024 04:15 | 2d 5h | 3,062 | 8,198 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 99 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Union 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 ÷ 259,708 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. Union County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Union 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/union-county