Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc

What This Utility Data Tells You

Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in New Mexico under EIA identifier 9699. It reports service to approximately 31,616 customer accounts and generated about $0.05 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 62 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 Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc customer experienced 668.1 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That runs well past the 120–180 minute national benchmark, which can reflect storm-exposed terrain, an aging grid, or slower restoration times. SAIFI, the average number of outage events per customer, was 3.43 for the same period, so customers statistically faced roughly 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 641.3 minutes; the difference from the headline 668.1 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

Jemez Mountains Elec 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 540.9 to 668.1 minutes, which may reflect either worsening weather exposure or delayed grid modernization.