State · EIA Form 861 · NJ
New Jersey
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration's EIA Form 861, SAIDI and SAIFI for New Jersey utilities come from the federal annual survey. 4 utilities report reliability metrics; figures are customer-weighted state averages, not a guarantee for any single address.
Signature read: short chronic outage minutes relative to the 51-state Form 861 cohort (<=156 min tercile cut).
EIA Form 861 · Continuity Brief
New Jersey
EIA Form 861 Continuity Brief · August 2026 · IEEE 1366 SAIDI/SAIFI minutes, not a storm forecast.
New Jersey sits in the lower-third SAIDI band at 108.3 minutes across 4 reporting utilities (Public Service Elec & Gas Co lowest at 37.9), under the live national mean of 341.
Named SAIDI peers (in-state best + nearest-state averages)
State SAIDI neighbourhood (minutes / customer-year)
- New Jersey 108.3
- Delaware 108.2
- Arizona 106.9
- Iowa 105.2
- Rhode Island 104.6
- Colorado 99.4
Lower is fewer interruption minutes. Neighbours are nearest other-state averages in this corpus.
New Jersey vs all states by EIA Form 861 utility headcount
Where this state's reporting utility count sits among every state in the Form 861 file (coverage density, not reliability quality)
4 Top 90% more reporting utilities than 10% of 51 states
States, banded by electric utilities reporting on EIA Form 861
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EIA Form 861 · 2026-08-30
Utilities Ranked by Reliability · New Jersey short-outage cohort
All 4 electric utilities in New Jersey with reliability data, sorted by 2023 SAIDI; statewide average sits in the lower-third Form 861 band.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in New Jersey
Fewest outage minutes · live table sort
Top 4 New Jersey utilities by fewest outage minutes. Lower SAIDI is better - not a quality score beyond interruption duration.
Lowest-SAIDI utilities in New Jersey
| # | Utility | Type | SAIDI 2023 | SAIFI 2023 | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Public Service Elec & Gas Co | IOU | 37.9 | 0.57 | 2,223,326 |
| 2 | Atlantic City Electric Co | IOU | 100.0 | 0.66 | 520,489 |
| 3 | Rockland Electric Co | IOU | 119.0 | 0.92 | 71,169 |
| 4 | Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | IOU | 266.5 | 1.67 | 1,040,564 |
Nationwide states with similar customer scale
Cross-state peer sets for New Jersey (lower-third SAIDI band). Nearest-SAIDI neighbors stay in Read-with; these neighborhoods compare EIA Form 861 headcount and summed customer accounts.
Similar customer scale
Nearest states by summed customer accounts (3.9M here), excluding the headcount peer set.
Read with this New Jersey roster · short-outage band
- Lowest published SAIDI in New Jersey: Public Service Elec & Gas Co (37.9 min)
- Highest published SAIDI in New Jersey: Jersey Central Power & Lt Co (266.5 min)
- Ownership mix here: IOU leads (4 of 4 utilities) · national type means
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Delaware (108.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Arizona (106.9 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Iowa (105.2 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Rhode Island (104.6 min)
- Nearest avg SAIDI: Colorado (99.4 min)
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) Form 861 Annual Electric Power Industry Report, reliability · 2020-2023 State averages are rebuilt from utility filings in this portal DB; corpus ranks use headcount and customer sums.