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2015 Alamance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Alamance County, NC went without power for an average of 149.6 hours, a total of 138K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 7th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alamance County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 15, 2015 00:45 | February 15, 2015 23:30 | 22h 45m | 5,244 | 10K |
| 2 | May 1, 2015 17:30 | May 1, 2015 23:15 | 5h 45m | 2,892 | 14K |
| 3 | May 10, 2015 18:30 | May 10, 2015 22:30 | 4h | 2,880 | 1,454 |
| 4 | February 19, 2015 12:15 | February 19, 2015 14:15 | 2h | 2,754 | 2,757 |
| 5 | May 19, 2015 11:15 | May 20, 2015 00:45 | 13h 30m | 2,383 | 1,808 |
| 6 | March 24, 2015 14:45 | March 25, 2015 00:15 | 9h 30m | 2,363 | 626 |
| 7 | April 15, 2015 00:45 | April 15, 2015 08:30 | 7h 45m | 2,345 | 7,868 |
| 8 | April 7, 2015 16:15 | April 7, 2015 21:45 | 5h 30m | 1,955 | 2,454 |
| 9 | February 20, 2015 12:00 | February 20, 2015 17:00 | 5h | 1,841 | 4,504 |
| 10 | June 1, 2015 15:30 | June 3, 2015 07:45 | 1d 16h | 1,694 | 4,625 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 68 reached 100+ customers, 23 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Alamance County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Progress - (NC) | 2015 | 4.8 hrs | 1.90 | 3.0 hrs | 1.65 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 1.7 hrs | 1.13 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 2.8 hrs | 1.93 | 2.2 hrs | 1.55 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 925 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Alamance County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alamance County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/north-carolina/alamance-county