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2016 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 583K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 276th 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 Gaston 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 8, 2016 23:30 | July 13, 2016 12:00 | 4d 12h | 12,054 | 248K |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 16:30 | February 27, 2016 00:15 | 2d 7h | 6,420 | 110K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 08:15 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 9h 30m | 6,075 | 24K |
| 4 | May 8, 2016 12:30 | May 8, 2016 19:30 | 7h | 5,895 | 1,630 |
| 5 | June 12, 2016 07:30 | June 12, 2016 09:15 | 1h 45m | 5,134 | 6,632 |
| 6 | April 22, 2016 10:00 | April 22, 2016 22:45 | 12h 45m | 3,553 | 8,894 |
| 7 | July 16, 2016 12:30 | July 18, 2016 09:45 | 1d 21h | 3,529 | 32K |
| 8 | September 2, 2016 15:45 | September 3, 2016 05:30 | 13h 45m | 2,948 | 4,867 |
| 9 | April 17, 2016 08:30 | April 17, 2016 15:15 | 6h 45m | 2,947 | 5,228 |
| 10 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 9, 2016 23:15 | 1d | 2,436 | 6,092 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 93 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Gaston 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.14 | 47 min | 0.57 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/gaston-county