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2020 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 70K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2066th 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 Eddy 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 | July 9, 2020 18:30 | July 13, 2020 13:30 | 3d 19h | 8,988 | 19K |
| 2 | November 9, 2020 17:30 | November 9, 2020 21:30 | 4h | 4,503 | 5,030 |
| 3 | March 14, 2020 20:30 | March 15, 2020 06:45 | 10h 15m | 2,007 | 1,773 |
| 4 | April 27, 2020 17:45 | April 27, 2020 22:00 | 4h 15m | 1,660 | 1,967 |
| 5 | June 17, 2020 13:45 | June 18, 2020 05:30 | 15h 45m | 1,624 | 1,829 |
| 6 | June 19, 2020 07:15 | June 19, 2020 14:15 | 7h | 1,619 | 6,225 |
| 7 | April 4, 2020 12:15 | April 4, 2020 12:30 | 15m | 1,407 | 352 |
| 8 | March 12, 2020 22:30 | March 12, 2020 23:30 | 1h | 815 | 289 |
| 9 | February 15, 2020 20:30 | February 16, 2020 09:30 | 13h | 787 | 654 |
| 10 | January 2, 2020 11:00 | January 2, 2020 20:45 | 9h 45m | 754 | 1,068 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 56 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Eddy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southwestern Public Service Co | 2020 | 5.5 hrs | 1.25 | 1.7 hrs | 0.92 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.8 hrs | - | 8.2 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 28,539 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. Eddy County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Eddy 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/eddy-county