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2022 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 108.3 hours, a total of 3.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 22nd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Mecklenburg County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 22, 2022 06:15 | December 29, 2022 03:30 | 6d 21h | 105,751 | 829K |
| 2 | January 1, 2022 12:30 | January 6, 2022 08:45 | 4d 20h | 23,554 | 188K |
| 3 | June 15, 2022 10:30 | June 20, 2022 06:15 | 4d 19h | 22,871 | 163K |
| 4 | September 29, 2022 06:45 | October 4, 2022 04:45 | 4d 22h | 14,938 | 282K |
| 5 | July 4, 2022 10:30 | July 12, 2022 08:30 | 7d 22h | 13,932 | 238K |
| 6 | January 9, 2022 10:30 | January 11, 2022 05:15 | 1d 18h | 12,066 | 16K |
| 7 | March 17, 2022 12:15 | March 22, 2022 06:30 | 4d 18h | 11,499 | 55K |
| 8 | May 21, 2022 11:15 | May 26, 2022 01:45 | 4d 14h | 10,832 | 76K |
| 9 | July 13, 2022 10:00 | July 16, 2022 09:45 | 2d 23h | 7,222 | 24K |
| 10 | June 1, 2022 10:15 | June 3, 2022 10:15 | 2d | 7,008 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 161 reached 100+ customers, 85 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 Mecklenburg County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.09 | 1.9 hrs | 0.88 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2022 | 2.8 hrs | 1.39 | 59 min | 0.75 |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | 2022 | 26 min | 0.14 | - | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Cornelius - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Pineville - (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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 28,172 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. Mecklenburg County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Mecklenburg County, NC annual power outage report, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/mecklenburg-county