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d2f5e-us-el-paso-electric-company
El Paso Electric Company
Location
Texas
Founded
1901-01-26
Website
https://www.epelectric.com
Articles
567 Articles
Category
Electric Services
Description
Today, El Paso Electric is a regional electric utility providing generation, transmission and distribution service to approximately 384,000 retail and wholesale customers in a 10,000 square mile area of the Rio Grande valley in west Texas and southern New Mexico. Its service territory extends from Hatch, New Mexico to Van Horn, Texas and includes two connections to Juarez, Mexico and the Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), Mexico’s national utility. EPE’s principal industrial and large customers include steel production, copper and oil refining, and United States military installations including the United States Army Air Defense Center at Fort Bliss in Texas and the White Sands Missile Range and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
EPE has a net dependable generating capability of 1,852 MW. It’s facilities include a 15.8 percent interest in the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Wintersburg, Arizona, a 7 percent interest in the Four Corners Station in northwestern New Mexico, the Rio Grande Power Station in Sunland Park, New Mexico, the Newman Power Station and the Copper Power Station in El Paso and the Hueco Mountain Wind Ranch in Hudspeth County, Texas.
During Monday's extreme weather event in El Paso that saw winds blowing in excess of 60 MPH across some parts of town, El Paso Electric experienced numerous outages that affected upwards of 4,500 customers at its peak. (Credit: KFOX14/CBS4)
So far, New Mexico has fared well in terms of grid reliability during record-breaking summer heat. Investor-owned utilities say outages this summer generally have not been related to heat. Storms have knocked out power and other incidents, such as vehicles crashing into infrastructure, have caused
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