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2017 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 23 New Mexico counties and 1333rd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Otero County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 28, 2017 19:15 | February 28, 2017 22:15 | 3h | 4,953 | 14K |
| 2 | July 29, 2017 23:45 | July 30, 2017 00:00 | 15m | 3,957 | 989 |
| 3 | December 19, 2017 18:30 | December 19, 2017 20:30 | 2h | 3,943 | 7,886 |
| 4 | June 8, 2017 03:45 | June 8, 2017 15:00 | 11h 15m | 2,443 | 5,709 |
| 5 | May 7, 2017 21:15 | May 7, 2017 23:45 | 2h 30m | 2,421 | 654 |
| 6 | September 27, 2017 17:00 | September 27, 2017 17:30 | 30m | 1,778 | 445 |
| 7 | July 27, 2017 12:45 | July 27, 2017 21:15 | 8h 30m | 1,677 | 1,625 |
| 8 | August 15, 2017 07:00 | August 15, 2017 14:30 | 7h 30m | 1,293 | 2,955 |
| 9 | January 15, 2017 04:45 | January 15, 2017 08:00 | 3h 15m | 1,182 | 1,322 |
| 10 | July 24, 2017 04:15 | July 24, 2017 06:45 | 2h 30m | 1,059 | 2,600 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 34 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 | 87 min | 0.88 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2017 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2017 | 86 min | 1.09 | 86 min | 1.09 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/new-mexico/otero-county