El Paso Electric Co, NM
El Paso Electric Co's outage record
El Paso Electric Co customers in New Mexico had 1.2 interruptions last year, 1.9 hours total - a bit below the typical US utility's outage time. That is 32% less outage time than the New Mexico state average of 2.9 hours a year.
How long a single El Paso Electric Co outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 1.6 hours before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. Why outage length, not count, picks the backup: how often vs how long.
The generator question for El Paso Electric Co
Serving 110,962 customers here, Outages at El Paso Electric Co run below the national norm, so a generator is not urgent - still worth checking if you have medical equipment or a sump pump that cannot go without power.
How El Paso Electric Co's record was measured
El Paso Electric Co filed these numbers itself, as an investor-owned utility, under EIA Form 861 - a federal reliability report covering its entire New Mexico territory, serving 110,962 customers here, not a single street or outage. See New Mexico as a whole, across every utility that filed: New Mexico's outage record. How the verdict bands are set is in the methodology.