Jersey Central Power & Lt Co

What This Utility Data Tells You

Jersey Central Power & Lt Co is an investor-owned utility operating in New Jersey under EIA identifier 9726. It reports service to approximately 1,040,564 customer accounts and generated about $1.62 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 298 ZIP codes. As an investor-owned utility, it operates under state public utility commission oversight that reviews rate cases and reliability performance.

In 2023, the average Jersey Central Power & Lt Co customer experienced 266.5 minutes of power interruptions, a metric called SAIDI (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 1.67 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 2 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 220.3 minutes; the difference from the headline 266.5 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Jersey Central Power & Lt Co has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 2197.8 to 266.5 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely. Note: this figure is unusually low compared to typical U.S. utility performance and may reflect an incomplete EIA filing for this year rather than a genuine reliability improvement -- treat with caution and cross-check against Jersey Central Power & Lt Co's other reported years.