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2022 Otero County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Otero County, NM went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.6 hours). That ranks 21st worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 2779th 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 Otero 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 | August 23, 2022 02:45 | August 23, 2022 05:15 | 2h 30m | 1,995 | 1,864 |
| 2 | July 19, 2022 23:15 | July 20, 2022 01:30 | 2h 15m | 555 | 1,247 |
| 3 | July 29, 2022 22:00 | July 30, 2022 07:00 | 9h | 540 | 732 |
| 4 | June 25, 2022 19:15 | June 25, 2022 21:15 | 2h | 360 | 718 |
| 5 | June 10, 2022 22:00 | June 11, 2022 07:15 | 9h 15m | 344 | 2,661 |
| 6 | June 9, 2022 03:15 | June 9, 2022 09:15 | 6h | 142 | 493 |
| 7 | June 17, 2022 11:30 | June 17, 2022 15:30 | 4h | 137 | 246 |
| 8 | July 30, 2022 23:15 | July 31, 2022 06:15 | 7h | 134 | 130 |
| 9 | August 7, 2022 21:00 | August 7, 2022 23:15 | 2h 15m | 120 | 211 |
| 10 | June 30, 2022 14:45 | June 30, 2022 18:00 | 3h 15m | 114 | 39 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 12 reached 100+ customers, 1 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 Otero 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 5.9 hrs | - | 5.8 hrs | - |
| Public Service Co of NM | 2022 | 2.7 hrs | 0.86 | 1.7 hrs | 0.78 |
| El Paso Electric Co | 2022 | 83 min | 0.94 | 83 min | 0.94 |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2022 | 6.8 hrs | 2.27 | 3.9 hrs | 1.77 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/otero-county