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2015 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (New Mexico average 1.6 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 21 New Mexico counties and 1422nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 28, 2015 18:30 | August 28, 2015 19:15 | 45m | 3,941 | 2,956 |
| 2 | June 30, 2015 15:00 | June 30, 2015 19:30 | 4h 30m | 3,936 | 1,971 |
| 3 | June 14, 2015 00:45 | June 14, 2015 05:45 | 5h | 1,352 | 2,375 |
| 4 | December 18, 2015 12:15 | December 18, 2015 18:15 | 6h | 903 | 3,678 |
| 5 | October 20, 2015 08:15 | October 20, 2015 12:15 | 4h | 735 | 1,477 |
| 6 | December 27, 2015 02:00 | December 27, 2015 17:45 | 15h 45m | 706 | 1,261 |
| 7 | October 21, 2015 00:00 | October 21, 2015 06:30 | 6h 30m | 674 | 2,124 |
| 8 | July 7, 2015 22:15 | July 8, 2015 02:45 | 4h 30m | 527 | 1,264 |
| 9 | August 23, 2015 06:45 | August 23, 2015 17:15 | 10h 30m | 500 | 1,738 |
| 10 | September 22, 2015 13:00 | September 22, 2015 14:45 | 1h 45m | 437 | 572 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 27 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 Otero County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NM | 2015 | 75 min | 0.78 | 75 min | 0.78 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2015 | 1.8 hrs | 1.17 | 84 min | 1.07 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2015 | 51 min | 0.48 | 51 min | 0.48 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Otero County Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 New Mexico's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 18,452 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. Otero County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Otero County, NM annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/new-mexico/otero-county