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2020 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 79K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1545th 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 Otero 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 14, 2020 01:00 | July 14, 2020 06:30 | 5h 30m | 16,919 | 18K |
| 2 | August 20, 2020 17:00 | August 20, 2020 20:00 | 3h | 8,477 | 10K |
| 3 | July 12, 2020 22:00 | July 13, 2020 03:15 | 5h 15m | 3,610 | 1,892 |
| 4 | August 3, 2020 01:15 | August 3, 2020 06:00 | 4h 45m | 3,203 | 9,163 |
| 5 | July 11, 2020 20:45 | July 12, 2020 02:00 | 5h 15m | 2,490 | 6,995 |
| 6 | June 24, 2020 00:45 | June 24, 2020 06:15 | 5h 30m | 2,220 | 3,964 |
| 7 | July 15, 2020 00:45 | July 15, 2020 03:00 | 2h 15m | 2,018 | 2,019 |
| 8 | July 21, 2020 00:15 | July 21, 2020 03:15 | 3h | 1,299 | 3,897 |
| 9 | April 24, 2020 14:15 | April 24, 2020 18:00 | 3h 45m | 1,019 | 482 |
| 10 | June 6, 2020 16:15 | June 7, 2020 01:00 | 8h 45m | 729 | 2,790 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 41 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 9.8 hrs | - | 8.2 hrs | - |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 0.78 | 89 min | 0.71 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2020 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 | 1.6 hrs | 0.90 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2020 | 4.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.0 hrs | 1.69 |
| 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 82% of New Mexico's customers in 2020; 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, 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/otero-county