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2020 Bernalillo County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bernalillo County, NM went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 752K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2225th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bernalillo County, 2020
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 8, 2020 13:30 | September 14, 2020 06:15 | 5d 16h | 14,590 | 388K |
| 2 | November 22, 2020 02:00 | November 22, 2020 04:30 | 2h 30m | 13,391 | 4,415 |
| 3 | June 5, 2020 15:45 | June 10, 2020 06:30 | 4d 14h | 7,901 | 38K |
| 4 | April 19, 2020 03:30 | April 19, 2020 15:00 | 11h 30m | 7,236 | 8,503 |
| 5 | June 27, 2020 14:15 | June 28, 2020 10:00 | 19h 45m | 5,636 | 5,682 |
| 6 | November 27, 2020 14:45 | November 28, 2020 07:00 | 16h 15m | 5,058 | 10K |
| 7 | August 1, 2020 09:30 | August 3, 2020 13:15 | 2d 3h | 4,625 | 13K |
| 8 | July 30, 2020 21:15 | August 1, 2020 05:00 | 1d 7h | 3,391 | 11K |
| 9 | February 11, 2020 07:15 | February 12, 2020 02:00 | 18h 45m | 3,276 | 5,884 |
| 10 | June 13, 2020 21:15 | June 15, 2020 16:45 | 1d 19h | 3,105 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 132 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Bernalillo County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 0.78 | 89 min | 0.71 |
| Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continental Divide El 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 364,403 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. Bernalillo County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bernalillo County, NM annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/new-mexico/bernalillo-county