New Jersey: official power outage sources

If your power is out

1. Stay away from downed lines and anything touching them. Call 911.
2. Report it to your own utility. The name and outage phone number are on your electric bill. Do not assume a neighbor has reported it.
3. Check your utility's outage page for the area affected and any restoration estimate. Only your utility can give that estimate.

More on staying safe during an outage

Utility outage pages

Each link covers only that utility's own customers. If your provider is not listed here, use the directories in the next section.

• PSE&G Outage page PSE&G in New Jersey is a different company from PSEG Long Island. outagecenter.pseg.com
• Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) Outage page outages-nj.firstenergycorp.com
• Atlantic City Electric Utility website atlanticcityelectric.com
• Rockland Electric Company (Orange & Rockland) Outage page The map also covers Orange and Rockland Utilities in New York. outagemap.oru.com
• Vineland Municipal Electric Utility website utilities.vinelandcity.org
• Sussex Rural Electric Cooperative Outage page The map's outage count and its count of members without power are different numbers. sussexrec.com

Official state sources

Use these to find out which utility serves an address, to reach the regulator, and to follow state emergency information.

• New Jersey Board of Public Utilities: utility directory Regulator Lists the major utilities' outage contacts; it does not list every town-run system. nj.gov
• New Jersey Public Power Authority directory Provider directory Lists the nine town-run electric systems. rosenet.org
• NJ Office of Emergency Management: power outages Emergency management nj.gov
• National Weather Service Weather alerts Enter your town or ZIP code for current watches and warnings. A weather warning is not an outage prediction. weather.gov

Good to know in New Jersey

• If you live in one of the nine towns with its own electric system, such as Vineland, Madison or Seaside Heights, check with your town; the big utilities' maps do not cover you.
• Sussex Rural Electric Cooperative members are its own customers, not JCP&L customers, even though the two systems connect.
• Older state service-territory maps are rough and should not be used to decide which company serves a specific address.

The wider grid

Regional grid organizations and balancing areas that cover all or part of New Jersey: PJM. They balance supply and demand on the high-voltage system. Their alerts describe the regional system, not an outage on your street. How the pieces fit together