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2015 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 284K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 460th 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 Gaston 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 | July 6, 2015 18:45 | July 7, 2015 01:45 | 7h | 4,964 | 11K |
| 2 | July 7, 2015 03:15 | July 7, 2015 18:00 | 14h 45m | 4,204 | 32K |
| 3 | February 2, 2015 16:00 | February 3, 2015 03:15 | 11h 15m | 3,891 | 11K |
| 4 | September 25, 2015 08:45 | September 26, 2015 00:30 | 15h 45m | 2,839 | 3,543 |
| 5 | October 3, 2015 01:45 | October 6, 2015 01:15 | 2d 23h | 2,779 | 23K |
| 6 | August 19, 2015 02:30 | August 20, 2015 09:15 | 1d 6h | 2,413 | 23K |
| 7 | May 19, 2015 21:15 | May 20, 2015 06:00 | 8h 45m | 2,264 | 4,849 |
| 8 | April 9, 2015 11:30 | April 10, 2015 06:00 | 18h 30m | 1,971 | 8,236 |
| 9 | March 20, 2015 17:30 | March 21, 2015 00:00 | 6h 30m | 1,970 | 2,961 |
| 10 | February 26, 2015 04:45 | February 27, 2015 03:45 | 23h | 1,829 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 79 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Gaston 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 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 62 min | 0.82 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Dallas - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,215 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. Gaston County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Gaston 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/gaston-county