El Paso Electric Co, TX
Power reliability at El Paso Electric Co
This is one of the steadier grids on file: El Paso Electric Co's Texas customers went without power for only 55 minutes across 0.9 separate outages last year. That is 75% less outage time than the Texas state average of 3.7 hours a year.
How long a single El Paso Electric Co outage runs
Outages here typically run short, about 64 minutes before power is back - a battery power station or small portable generator should cover the essentials through most of them. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
Do El Paso Electric Co customers need a generator
Serving 363,341 customers here, With a record this steady, El Paso Electric Co customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
Where this number comes from
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report an investor-owned utility like El Paso Electric Co files with federal regulators every year - serving 363,341 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. See Texas as a whole, across every utility that filed: Texas's outage record. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.