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2022 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 50K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2383rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Eddy County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2022 18:30 | May 4, 2022 23:00 | 4h 30m | 2,492 | 3,477 |
| 2 | September 15, 2022 19:00 | September 15, 2022 21:30 | 2h 30m | 1,915 | 507 |
| 3 | September 22, 2022 22:45 | September 23, 2022 00:15 | 1h 30m | 1,732 | 1,110 |
| 4 | June 1, 2022 16:00 | June 1, 2022 19:15 | 3h 15m | 1,637 | 2,178 |
| 5 | April 6, 2022 22:00 | April 6, 2022 23:15 | 1h 15m | 1,628 | 825 |
| 6 | June 26, 2022 21:30 | June 29, 2022 02:45 | 2d 5h | 1,454 | 4,503 |
| 7 | August 3, 2022 21:00 | August 4, 2022 04:30 | 7h 30m | 1,383 | 1,771 |
| 8 | February 5, 2022 19:15 | February 5, 2022 19:45 | 30m | 1,103 | 376 |
| 9 | July 4, 2022 20:30 | July 5, 2022 02:00 | 5h 30m | 1,079 | 2,494 |
| 10 | September 22, 2022 18:00 | September 22, 2022 18:15 | 15m | 895 | 224 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 58 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 2.3 hrs | 1.02 | 1.7 hrs | 0.91 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | - | 5.8 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 2.27 | 3.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/new-mexico/eddy-county