Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in New Mexico under EIA identifier 3273. It reports service to approximately 18,991 customer accounts and generated about $0.04 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 36 ZIP codes. As a cooperative, its governance is accountable to its ratepayer-members rather than shareholders, which often shapes rate-setting and reinvestment priorities.

In 2023, the average Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc customer experienced 694.0 minutes of power interruptions, the industry-standard SAIDI metric (System Average Interruption Duration Index). That is substantially above the 120–180 minute national benchmark, indicating either storm-prone geography, aging infrastructure, or extended restoration windows. Over the same period, SAIFI (outage events per customer) was 6.40, putting the typical customer at roughly 6 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 391.8 minutes, and the spread against the headline 694.0 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc, which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI climbed from 498.1 to 694.0 minutes over that window, a shift that can point to worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.