Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM)

What This Utility Data Tells You

Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) is a member-owned electric cooperative operating in New Mexico under EIA identifier 10817. It reports service to approximately 11,244 customer accounts and generated about $0.06 billion in annual electric revenue, with a service footprint spanning 15 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 Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) customer experienced 171.9 minutes of power interruptions, a measure known as SAIDI, or System Average Interruption Duration Index. That falls inside the typical 120–180 minute national benchmark, in line with what most U.S. distribution utilities report. The SAIFI figure, which tracks average outage events per customer, came in at 2.58 for the same period, meaning customers statistically saw about 3 distinct interruptions that year. Strip out major event days (hurricanes, ice storms) and SAIDI falls to 171.9 minutes; the difference from the headline 171.9 shows how much of the outage total came from weather rather than everyday grid issues.

The EIA dataset includes 4 years of continuous reporting (2020–2023) for Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM), which lets you see whether reliability is trending up or down rather than judging from a single snapshot. SAIDI dropped from 173.6 to 171.9 minutes across that span, a direction regulators and prospective customers tend to watch closely.