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2017 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 303K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 814th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gaston County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 5, 2017 13:15 | September 6, 2017 05:30 | 16h 15m | 5,585 | 4,335 |
| 2 | July 5, 2017 12:15 | July 6, 2017 22:45 | 1d 10h | 5,260 | 15K |
| 3 | April 17, 2017 12:15 | April 18, 2017 20:45 | 1d 8h | 3,605 | 18K |
| 4 | March 15, 2017 17:00 | March 16, 2017 03:00 | 10h | 3,194 | 19K |
| 5 | May 29, 2017 22:30 | May 30, 2017 19:30 | 21h | 3,042 | 5,192 |
| 6 | September 25, 2017 11:00 | September 25, 2017 23:15 | 12h 15m | 2,808 | 1,622 |
| 7 | October 5, 2017 14:00 | October 5, 2017 23:15 | 9h 15m | 2,792 | 1,584 |
| 8 | August 4, 2017 16:45 | August 4, 2017 23:00 | 6h 15m | 2,787 | 834 |
| 9 | June 4, 2017 16:30 | June 6, 2017 06:45 | 1d 14h | 2,729 | 39K |
| 10 | September 6, 2017 07:00 | September 7, 2017 09:45 | 1d 2h | 1,981 | 9,138 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.3 hrs | 1.59 | 72 min | 1.09 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2017 | 2.1 hrs | 0.77 | 1.6 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/gaston-county