Public Service Elec & Gas Co, NJ
Power reliability at Public Service Elec & Gas Co
This is one of the steadier grids on file: Public Service Elec & Gas Co's New Jersey customers went without power for only 66 minutes across 0.7 separate outages last year. That is 57% less outage time than the New Jersey state average of 2.6 hours a year.
How long a single Public Service Elec & Gas Co outage runs
At an average of 1.5 hours per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 2,575,136 customers here, With a record this steady, Public Service Elec & Gas Co customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How Public Service Elec & Gas Co's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like Public Service Elec & Gas Co files with federal regulators every year - serving 2,575,136 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the New Jersey average instead of just this one utility? New Jersey's statewide record is here. Storm days are counted in - here is why.