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2020 Grant County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Grant County, NM went without power for an average of 7.3 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1041st 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 Grant 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 | December 10, 2020 23:15 | December 11, 2020 03:00 | 3h 45m | 4,482 | 16K |
| 2 | October 27, 2020 02:45 | October 29, 2020 00:30 | 1d 21h | 4,148 | 22K |
| 3 | December 11, 2020 03:45 | December 11, 2020 04:00 | 15m | 1,622 | 406 |
| 4 | August 5, 2020 18:00 | August 6, 2020 04:00 | 10h | 1,424 | 7,600 |
| 5 | June 30, 2020 20:45 | July 1, 2020 02:15 | 5h 30m | 1,399 | 2,355 |
| 6 | May 1, 2020 22:15 | May 2, 2020 07:45 | 9h 30m | 1,374 | 5,198 |
| 7 | July 28, 2020 22:45 | July 29, 2020 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1,367 | 1,066 |
| 8 | August 2, 2020 00:00 | August 2, 2020 08:30 | 8h 30m | 1,242 | 9,937 |
| 9 | February 11, 2020 03:45 | February 11, 2020 17:45 | 14h | 1,239 | 15K |
| 10 | December 30, 2020 16:15 | December 30, 2020 16:30 | 15m | 1,018 | 255 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 46 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Grant 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 |
| Columbus Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Duncan Valley Elec 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 ÷ 15,355 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. Grant County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Grant 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/grant-county