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2016 Alamance County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Alamance County, NC went without power for an average of 187.1 hours, a total of 173K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 9th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Alamance County, 2016
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 15, 2016 22:00 | July 17, 2016 04:15 | 1d 6h | 3,417 | 15K |
| 2 | September 28, 2016 22:45 | September 30, 2016 10:15 | 1d 11h | 3,018 | 18K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 10, 2016 01:15 | 1d 2h | 2,224 | 15K |
| 4 | May 3, 2016 14:30 | May 4, 2016 15:30 | 1d 1h | 1,978 | 2,899 |
| 5 | July 6, 2016 13:30 | July 6, 2016 21:45 | 8h 15m | 1,959 | 1,376 |
| 6 | February 29, 2016 15:15 | February 29, 2016 17:00 | 1h 45m | 1,916 | 959 |
| 7 | April 19, 2016 16:15 | April 19, 2016 16:30 | 15m | 1,859 | 465 |
| 8 | September 26, 2016 12:15 | September 26, 2016 19:30 | 7h 15m | 1,743 | 887 |
| 9 | June 4, 2016 09:00 | June 5, 2016 19:00 | 1d 10h | 1,687 | 4,823 |
| 10 | June 10, 2016 05:30 | June 10, 2016 08:00 | 2h 30m | 1,642 | 3,695 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 77 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 2016, 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) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| Piedmont Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 3.5 hrs | 1.49 | 2.1 hrs | 1.17 |
| Randolph Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 2.35 | 1.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/alamance-county