County annual report · FIPS 37119
2015 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 40.5 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 59th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | June 23, 2015 07:45 | June 29, 2015 09:00 | 6d 1h | 14,387 | 130K |
| 2 | August 11, 2015 09:00 | August 13, 2015 02:30 | 1d 17h | 9,905 | 51K |
| 3 | October 1, 2015 05:00 | October 6, 2015 06:15 | 5d 1h | 9,803 | 181K |
| 4 | June 22, 2015 09:15 | June 23, 2015 07:00 | 21h 45m | 7,850 | 23K |
| 5 | June 16, 2015 08:45 | June 22, 2015 08:00 | 5d 23h | 6,626 | 30K |
| 6 | April 15, 2015 11:15 | April 17, 2015 06:30 | 1d 19h | 6,589 | 26K |
| 7 | May 7, 2015 23:15 | May 8, 2015 04:15 | 5h | 6,351 | 4,642 |
| 8 | August 17, 2015 10:45 | August 24, 2015 02:45 | 6d 16h | 5,979 | 61K |
| 9 | November 18, 2015 15:45 | November 20, 2015 07:15 | 1d 15h | 5,329 | 24K |
| 10 | September 14, 2015 12:15 | September 16, 2015 04:15 | 1d 16h | 5,093 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 175 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Mecklenburg 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 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2015 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 | 67 min | 0.77 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| York Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Cornelius - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pineville - (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 ÷ 28,172 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. Mecklenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mecklenburg 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/mecklenburg-county