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El Paso Electric Co
El Paso Electric Co served 97,258 residential customers in New Mexico in 2025 (10.3% of the state's residential customers), the 3rd largest of 20 utilities reporting there. Bundled service; ownership: investor owned; balancing authority EPE.
The meter, one average month.
Scroll to run 30 days of El Paso Electric Co's average residential use through a five-dial register.
- Used so far
- 718 kWh
- At 10.34¢/kWh
- $74.30
Price ruler0 to 50¢ per kWh
Where 10.34¢ sits.
El Paso Electric Co averaged 10.34¢ per kWh against a New Mexico residential average of 15.08¢: 31.4% below the state figure. Among the 3 investor owned utilities in New Mexico with bundled residential sales, it ranks 1st from the lowest price.
2020 and 2025EIA-861
Five years, same meter.
In 2020 the average El Paso Electric Co home used 731 kWh a month at 10.66¢ and paid $77.90. In 2025 it used 718 kWh at 10.34¢ and paid $74.30: the price per kWh is down 3%.
| Measure | 2020 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, ¢/kWh | 10.66 | 10.34 |
| Use, kWh a month | 731 | 718 |
| Bill, US$ a month | 77.9 | 74.3 |
| Class | Customers | MWh sold | ¢/kWh |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 97,258 | 838,284 | 10.34 |
| Commercial | 12,908 | 911,643 | 8.39 |
| Industrial | 12 | 79,110 | 7.09 |
Who else is on the line
Homes are one class.
Homes took 45.8% of the electricity El Paso Electric Co sold in New Mexico in 2025.
Rooftop solar on its linesnet metering
10,035 roofs.
- Residential net-metered PV
- 10,035installations reported for 2025
- Capacity
- 55.8 MWresidential, net metered
- Per 1,000 homes
- 103.2installations per 1,000 residential customers
Service territoryEIA-861
4 counties.
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Counties in New Mexico where El Paso Electric Co reported serving customers in 2025 (4 in all; up to 24 listed).
EIA-8612025Utility 5701
The filing, line by line.
| Measure | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Average price | 10.34 | ¢/kWh |
| New Mexico average price | 15.08 | ¢/kWh |
| Difference from state average | -31.4 | % |
| Price change over 5 years | -3.0 | % |
| Typical monthly use | 718 | kWh |
| Typical monthly bill | 74.3 | US$ |
| Residential customers | 97,258 | accounts |
| Share of NM residential customers | 10.3 | % |
| Size rank in NM | 3 of 20 | by customers |
| Price rank, investor owned peers | 1 of 3 | 1 = lowest |
Rate plans on fileOpenEI URDB
None shown for this page. Plan counts appear once per utility, on its largest state's bundled page; how plans are counted.
New Mexico: state average, five-year steps and every provider