Ocean County officials are threatening to take legal action against their power supplier - unless service improves.

News 12 New Jersey has previously reported about a rash of major JCP&L power outages over the last month – including during major holidays.

County officials are now threatening a $1 billion lawsuit. County commissioner Frank Sadeghi says the constant outages in Ocean County have impacted businesses, schools and senior centers. He says this comes at a cost.

The most recent mass outage happened in Toms River about a week ago. Before that, News 12 reported on significant outages during Christmas, Hanukkah and Thanksgiving in Ocean and Monmouth counties. There were also outages during the heat wave of the summer.

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JCP&L officials have told News 12 that they are in the middle of a $100 million project to beef up the infrastructure. But Ocean County officials want to put on the pressure.

“I'm saying $1 billion. I think maybe the billion dollars is light. I think maybe we should go $1.5 billion,” says Sadeghi. I need to have concrete answers. When is it going to happen? How much money is it going to take? When are you going to complete? When are you going to start the project?”

A JCP&L spokesperson tells News 12 the company, “continues to invest in Jersey Shore infrastructure to increase reliability and meet the current and expected future demand,” and that they “look forward to continued work with elected officials on these issues.”

The next meeting and update is expected in February.