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2023 Eddy County, NM Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Eddy County, NM went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 94K customer-hours (New Mexico average 2.8 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 27 New Mexico counties and 1864th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NM, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Mexico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Eddy County, 2023
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 8, 2023 01:45 | August 9, 2023 06:45 | 1d 5h | 4,680 | 23K |
| 2 | November 29, 2023 15:45 | November 29, 2023 20:30 | 4h 45m | 3,208 | 4,013 |
| 3 | September 13, 2023 16:15 | September 14, 2023 05:45 | 13h 30m | 1,910 | 1,747 |
| 4 | February 26, 2023 19:45 | February 28, 2023 04:30 | 1d 8h | 1,680 | 11K |
| 5 | February 14, 2023 12:15 | February 15, 2023 05:00 | 16h 45m | 1,297 | 3,539 |
| 6 | March 5, 2023 18:45 | March 5, 2023 22:30 | 3h 45m | 1,175 | 1,474 |
| 7 | September 29, 2023 23:30 | October 2, 2023 07:15 | 2d 7h | 1,156 | 5,065 |
| 8 | June 26, 2023 22:45 | June 27, 2023 03:00 | 4h 15m | 1,014 | 1,388 |
| 9 | October 12, 2023 22:30 | October 12, 2023 23:45 | 1h 15m | 897 | 897 |
| 10 | January 18, 2023 21:00 | January 19, 2023 08:15 | 11h 15m | 871 | 453 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 67 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 3.9 hrs | 1.27 | 1.9 hrs | 0.99 |
| Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 13.1 hrs | - | 11.6 hrs | - |
| Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc | 2023 | 5.4 hrs | 2.53 | 4.3 hrs | 2.10 |
| 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 n/a of New Mexico's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/new-mexico/eddy-county