Utilities operating in New Jersey are making progress in restoring service to customers who lost power because of the historic nor’easter that blew through New Jersey Sunday night and Monday during the day that caused more than 200,000 customers to lose power.
As of 3:50 p.m., Tuesday, 23,015 business and home customers were still without power, according to the website poweroutage.com, which tracks six major utilities operating in New Jersey. That’s 0.55% of the 4,155,539 customers the website tracks across the state. New Jersey currently has the second most power outages in the U.S. and ranks fourth for percentage of customers affected nationwide.
Most of those without power are in the southern part of the state. Atlantic County has the most outages with 5,126 customers without power. By percentage, Atlantic is the hardest hit at 3.69% of customers affected. Atlantic was followed by Cape May (4,882), Ocean (4,836), Burlington (3,192), Camden (1,996), Monmouth (1,112), Cumberland (731) and Gloucester (646).
Atlantic City Electric has the most customers out with 16,979 power outages and the highest percentage of customers affected at 3.03% without power. JCP&L, a unit of FirstEnergy, is seeking to restore service to 0.51% of its customers, or 5,916. Of the 2,328,813 PSE&G customers tracked by poweroutage.com, just 108 are without power.
