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2020 Carteret County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Carteret County, NC went without power for an average of 6.1 hours, a total of 241K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 78th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1225th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Carteret County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 00:30 | August 5, 2020 07:00 | 1d 6h | 11,895 | 110K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 06:15 | February 8, 2020 23:15 | 1d 17h | 7,435 | 22K |
| 3 | June 19, 2020 21:45 | June 20, 2020 10:00 | 12h 15m | 5,808 | 24K |
| 4 | July 14, 2020 12:30 | July 15, 2020 00:45 | 12h 15m | 4,366 | 1,244 |
| 5 | June 22, 2020 11:00 | June 22, 2020 12:15 | 1h 15m | 4,064 | 4,185 |
| 6 | April 25, 2020 04:15 | April 25, 2020 04:45 | 30m | 4,007 | 1,002 |
| 7 | November 30, 2020 04:45 | November 30, 2020 19:30 | 14h 45m | 2,224 | 4,591 |
| 8 | July 13, 2020 12:15 | July 14, 2020 00:00 | 11h 45m | 2,201 | 4,186 |
| 9 | July 8, 2020 13:30 | July 9, 2020 01:30 | 12h | 2,153 | 2,125 |
| 10 | August 13, 2020 13:00 | August 13, 2020 22:00 | 9h | 1,888 | 544 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 75 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Carteret County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Carteret-Craven El Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 39,432 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. Carteret County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Carteret County, NC annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/carteret-county