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2024 Mecklenburg County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Mecklenburg County, NC went without power for an average of 225.2 hours, a total of 6.3M customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 28th 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 Mecklenburg 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 11:30 | October 6, 2024 02:15 | 9d 14h | 116,836 | 2.9M |
| 2 | May 8, 2024 11:45 | May 13, 2024 03:15 | 4d 15h | 75,384 | 1.0M |
| 3 | January 7, 2024 12:30 | January 11, 2024 08:45 | 3d 20h | 61,063 | 408K |
| 4 | March 19, 2024 01:00 | March 20, 2024 06:00 | 1d 5h | 35,261 | 13K |
| 5 | August 6, 2024 11:15 | August 17, 2024 09:15 | 10d 22h | 25,379 | 374K |
| 6 | May 3, 2024 12:30 | May 8, 2024 05:45 | 4d 17h | 22,254 | 62K |
| 7 | December 28, 2024 06:45 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 3d 17h | 18,973 | 121K |
| 8 | June 4, 2024 07:00 | June 12, 2024 04:00 | 7d 21h | 16,562 | 237K |
| 9 | July 14, 2024 09:15 | July 18, 2024 08:45 | 3d 23h | 16,518 | 46K |
| 10 | March 24, 2024 12:00 | March 26, 2024 09:45 | 1d 21h | 13,817 | 26K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 159 reached 100+ customers, 80 reached 1,000+ customers, 12 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 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 |
| York Electric Coop Inc | 2024 | 16.3 hrs | 2.20 | 89 min | 1.69 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2024 | 6.0 hrs | 1.43 | 53 min | 0.71 |
| Town of Huntersville - (NC) | 2024 | 4.0 hrs | 1.65 | - | - |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/mecklenburg-county