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2023 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 75.9 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 40th 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 Mecklenburg 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 | August 26, 2023 06:45 | September 2, 2023 05:15 | 6d 22h | 48,540 | 223K |
| 2 | August 5, 2023 11:15 | August 10, 2023 09:15 | 4d 22h | 27,890 | 255K |
| 3 | February 10, 2023 12:15 | February 13, 2023 10:45 | 2d 22h | 18,522 | 29K |
| 4 | December 9, 2023 12:45 | December 12, 2023 07:15 | 2d 18h | 16,846 | 66K |
| 5 | November 10, 2023 12:15 | November 11, 2023 00:15 | 12h | 10,128 | 11K |
| 6 | August 24, 2023 12:00 | August 26, 2023 05:45 | 1d 17h | 9,011 | 59K |
| 7 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 14, 2023 03:30 | 2d 13h | 8,707 | 52K |
| 8 | March 3, 2023 08:45 | March 6, 2023 01:45 | 2d 17h | 7,731 | 33K |
| 9 | January 19, 2023 11:30 | January 20, 2023 09:15 | 21h 45m | 7,286 | 5,738 |
| 10 | May 16, 2023 08:30 | May 20, 2023 09:45 | 4d 1h | 6,833 | 66K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 171 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | 0.82 | 89 min | 0.81 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2023 | 88 min | 0.89 | 59 min | 0.74 |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | 2023 | 58 min | 0.99 | - | - |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 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/mecklenburg-county