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2020 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 544K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 691st 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 Gaston 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 | October 29, 2020 10:45 | November 3, 2020 18:45 | 5d 8h | 9,482 | 108K |
| 2 | June 22, 2020 21:00 | June 24, 2020 06:00 | 1d 9h | 7,371 | 43K |
| 3 | May 22, 2020 11:45 | May 26, 2020 00:00 | 3d 12h | 6,474 | 42K |
| 4 | April 12, 2020 23:45 | April 15, 2020 12:00 | 2d 12h | 6,017 | 60K |
| 5 | January 12, 2020 02:45 | January 12, 2020 23:00 | 20h 15m | 6,004 | 22K |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 16:15 | June 28, 2020 07:30 | 15h 15m | 5,260 | 30K |
| 7 | December 24, 2020 19:00 | December 26, 2020 20:30 | 2d 1h | 3,934 | 25K |
| 8 | September 5, 2020 15:45 | September 6, 2020 10:00 | 18h 15m | 3,541 | 22K |
| 9 | February 6, 2020 15:15 | February 8, 2020 17:45 | 2d 2h | 3,235 | 25K |
| 10 | July 21, 2020 18:30 | July 23, 2020 08:15 | 1d 13h | 2,712 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 95 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 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 Carolinas, LLC | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.38 | 86 min | 0.94 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2020 | 3.4 hrs | 0.99 | 72 min | 0.69 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 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/gaston-county