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2021 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 172K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1143rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Eddy County, 2021
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 16, 2021 04:45 | February 17, 2021 08:15 | 1d 3h | 15,851 | 64K |
| 2 | October 30, 2021 14:30 | October 30, 2021 19:00 | 4h 30m | 4,295 | 7,516 |
| 3 | May 6, 2021 21:45 | May 7, 2021 06:30 | 8h 45m | 3,264 | 9,024 |
| 4 | January 30, 2021 02:45 | January 30, 2021 04:30 | 1h 45m | 2,970 | 4,131 |
| 5 | February 15, 2021 15:30 | February 16, 2021 00:00 | 8h 30m | 2,951 | 6,186 |
| 6 | July 5, 2021 09:30 | July 5, 2021 21:15 | 11h 45m | 2,835 | 6,470 |
| 7 | March 28, 2021 22:45 | March 28, 2021 23:45 | 1h | 2,654 | 2,343 |
| 8 | April 20, 2021 22:45 | April 21, 2021 04:45 | 6h | 2,415 | 5,388 |
| 9 | February 24, 2021 18:30 | February 24, 2021 19:30 | 1h | 2,337 | 2,337 |
| 10 | May 19, 2021 14:00 | May 19, 2021 20:15 | 6h 15m | 2,216 | 1,124 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 76 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 Eddy County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 6.3 hrs | - | 5.3 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 8.8 hrs | 2.91 | 5.7 hrs | 2.26 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/new-mexico/eddy-county