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2023 Charlotte County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Charlotte County, VA went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 32K customer-hours (Virginia average 4.6 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 1258th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Charlotte 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 | February 4, 2023 10:30 | February 4, 2023 18:45 | 8h 15m | 976 | 8,036 |
| 2 | January 20, 2023 15:30 | January 20, 2023 18:30 | 3h | 975 | 1,465 |
| 3 | August 17, 2023 03:30 | August 17, 2023 06:15 | 2h 45m | 891 | 1,464 |
| 4 | October 25, 2023 16:30 | October 26, 2023 01:15 | 8h 45m | 824 | 1,111 |
| 5 | July 19, 2023 07:30 | July 19, 2023 14:45 | 7h 15m | 490 | 1,297 |
| 6 | July 31, 2023 19:15 | July 31, 2023 20:45 | 1h 30m | 427 | 594 |
| 7 | September 23, 2023 06:00 | September 24, 2023 00:30 | 18h 30m | 422 | 1,118 |
| 8 | July 13, 2023 22:45 | July 14, 2023 21:15 | 22h 30m | 397 | 2,129 |
| 9 | November 13, 2023 02:00 | November 13, 2023 03:30 | 1h 30m | 392 | 111 |
| 10 | October 8, 2023 04:15 | October 8, 2023 06:45 | 2h 30m | 376 | 847 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 23 reached 100+ customers, 0 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 Charlotte 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southside Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 | 4.5 hrs | 2.44 |
| Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative | 2023 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 | 4.1 hrs | 2.06 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Virginia's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 5,148 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. Charlotte County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Charlotte County, VA 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/virginia/charlotte-county