A5523

New Jersey A5523 mandates electric public utilities to report on major outage events to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

New Jersey A5523 requires electric public utilities to submit a detailed report to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities following any major outage event. A major outage event is defined as an interruption of service affecting at least 2,000 customers for 24 consecutive hours. The report must include a description of the outage's cause, the number of affected customers, a timeline of events, an engineering analysis of contributing factors, public communications made during the outage, an assessment of the utility's response, and planned corrective actions.