Public Service Elec & Gas Co

What This Utility Data Tells You

Public Service Elec & Gas Co is an investor-owned utility operating in New Jersey under EIA identifier 15477. It reports service to approximately 2,223,326 customer accounts and generated about $3.88 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 362 ZIP codes. Because it is investor-owned, the state public utility commission oversees its rate cases and reliability performance rather than a local board.

In 2023, the average Public Service Elec & Gas Co customer experienced 37.9 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That places this utility well below the 120–180 minute national benchmark, signaling strong grid hardening and fast restoration practices. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 0.57, putting the typical customer at roughly 1 distinct interruption that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 35.6 minutes; the difference from the headline 37.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Public Service Elec & Gas Co, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. Over that window, SAIDI moved from 452.7 down to 37.9 minutes, a trend worth noting for anyone weighing capital investment outcomes. 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 Public Service Elec & Gas Co's other reported years.