Continental Divide El Coop Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Continental Divide El Coop Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in New Mexico under EIA identifier 4265. It reports service to approximately 23,468 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 43 ZIP codes. Being member-owned, this cooperative answers to its ratepayers rather than outside shareholders, a structure that tends to influence how rate cases and capital spending get decided.

In 2023, the average Continental Divide El Coop Inc customer experienced 222.4 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That sits within the 120–180 minute national benchmark range, indicating performance typical of U.S. distribution utilities. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.28 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 2 distinct interruptions that year. Once major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) are excluded, SAIDI comes down to 221.2 minutes, and the spread against the headline 222.4 indicates how much weather, versus routine infrastructure, drove the outage total.

Continental Divide El Coop Inc has 4 years of continuous EIA reporting on file (2020–2023), enough to read a real trend rather than a single-year snapshot. SAIDI has increased from 146.0 to 222.4 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.