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2023 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 6.3 hours, a total of 296K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1248th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gaston County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 16, 2023 22:45 | May 17, 2023 23:30 | 1d | 3,439 | 36K |
| 2 | May 1, 2023 12:15 | May 2, 2023 23:45 | 1d 11h | 3,415 | 17K |
| 3 | October 29, 2023 21:45 | October 29, 2023 23:30 | 1h 45m | 3,135 | 3,145 |
| 4 | July 18, 2023 12:15 | July 18, 2023 14:30 | 2h 15m | 2,641 | 3,300 |
| 5 | August 6, 2023 19:15 | August 7, 2023 07:30 | 12h 15m | 2,529 | 17K |
| 6 | August 7, 2023 12:15 | August 9, 2023 21:45 | 2d 9h | 2,456 | 18K |
| 7 | March 1, 2023 14:15 | March 2, 2023 01:45 | 11h 30m | 2,289 | 3,011 |
| 8 | June 21, 2023 11:15 | June 21, 2023 21:45 | 10h 30m | 2,115 | 5,407 |
| 9 | October 17, 2023 13:15 | October 18, 2023 00:00 | 10h 45m | 2,100 | 3,233 |
| 10 | October 27, 2023 13:45 | October 27, 2023 17:45 | 4h | 2,099 | 2,101 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 111 reached 100+ customers, 30 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.09 | 1.6 hrs | 0.88 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 89 min | 0.81 |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | 2023 | 78 min | 0.80 | 78 min | 0.80 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Kings Mountain - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Cherryville - (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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/gaston-county