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2024 Gaston County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Gaston County, NC went without power for an average of 77.7 hours, a total of 3.7M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 124th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Gaston County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2024 20:15 | October 7, 2024 05:45 | 10d 9h | 52,626 | 2.4M |
| 2 | May 8, 2024 13:30 | May 13, 2024 06:30 | 4d 17h | 31,026 | 908K |
| 3 | August 8, 2024 08:15 | August 11, 2024 00:00 | 2d 15h | 22,752 | 89K |
| 4 | August 29, 2024 19:15 | August 29, 2024 23:00 | 3h 45m | 4,179 | 7,474 |
| 5 | June 30, 2024 19:00 | July 2, 2024 23:00 | 2d 4h | 3,551 | 31K |
| 6 | September 12, 2024 13:45 | September 13, 2024 06:45 | 17h | 3,143 | 3,876 |
| 7 | January 9, 2024 14:00 | January 11, 2024 01:45 | 1d 11h | 3,135 | 21K |
| 8 | December 11, 2024 04:15 | December 12, 2024 06:15 | 1d 2h | 3,028 | 8,147 |
| 9 | July 21, 2024 00:45 | July 22, 2024 22:15 | 1d 21h | 2,503 | 5,544 |
| 10 | January 12, 2024 13:15 | January 13, 2024 05:15 | 16h | 2,335 | 4,645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 122 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| Rutherford Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 92.2 hrs | 2.48 | 5.8 hrs | 1.11 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 16.3 hrs | 2.20 | 89 min | 1.69 |
| City of Gastonia - (NC) | 2024 | 23.0 hrs | 3.39 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/gaston-county