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2015 Alexander County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Alexander County, NC went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 25K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 774th 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 Alexander 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 | October 11, 2015 04:30 | October 11, 2015 05:00 | 30m | 2,923 | 1,462 |
| 2 | January 24, 2015 17:00 | January 24, 2015 22:15 | 5h 15m | 1,322 | 790 |
| 3 | November 2, 2015 17:30 | November 2, 2015 19:30 | 2h | 1,209 | 1,388 |
| 4 | June 16, 2015 23:45 | June 17, 2015 02:30 | 2h 45m | 925 | 1,622 |
| 5 | June 26, 2015 20:15 | June 27, 2015 05:30 | 9h 15m | 840 | 1,738 |
| 6 | June 30, 2015 22:30 | July 1, 2015 03:00 | 4h 30m | 795 | 1,772 |
| 7 | August 19, 2015 18:45 | August 20, 2015 01:45 | 7h | 699 | 713 |
| 8 | October 3, 2015 04:00 | October 3, 2015 21:45 | 17h 45m | 691 | 1,747 |
| 9 | January 4, 2015 04:45 | January 4, 2015 13:30 | 8h 45m | 681 | 562 |
| 10 | April 22, 2015 20:15 | April 23, 2015 01:00 | 4h 45m | 671 | 1,009 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Alexander 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 82 min | 1.19 | 82 min | 1.19 |
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 ÷ 6,903 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. Alexander County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Alexander 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/alexander-county