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When the power goes out
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Choose a town, county or ZIP to explore its records.
Across New Jersey
Compare annual outage records with and without major-event days. These describe electricity companies across New Jersey—not the reliability of one town or address.
What happens when major events are excluded?
Annual minutes without power per customer (SAIDI). Utility-wide New Jersey records; not the town’s outages. The scale stays fixed when the basis changes.
Methods and exclusions can differ between utilities. This is not a reliability ranking, current outage status or a prediction.
EIA-861 utility reports. SAIDI is annual minutes without power per customer; SAIFI counts interruptions; CAIDI is restoration time per interruption. Different methods and event exclusions cannot be mixed. Selected-place details retain NJ BPU records, sources and public-records-request context. EIA annual records. More visual stories →