Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative Rates and Bills

Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative reported 19,323 residential customers on bundled service in 2025, using 580 kWh a month on average at 17.39 cents per kWh. Bundled means the utility supplies the energy and delivers it, so the price covers both. Among the 13 New Mexico utilities with at least 10,000 bundled residential customers, Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative ranks 12 from the lowest price.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), sales to ultimate customers. Price is revenue divided by sales and includes fixed charges.

EIA lists the counties where Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative has distribution equipment. That covers 11 counties in New Mexico. A county can be served by more than one utility, so confirm your address with the utility or your bill.

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For 2025, Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative reported an average of 368 minutes without power per customer and 2.00 interruptions per customer, with major event days left out. The typical interruption lasted about 184 minutes. For comparison, the median state averaged 127 minutes of outage per customer.

Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative had about 241 more minutes of outage per customer than the median state. The New Mexico figure across its utilities was 143 minutes. One interruption lasting 184 minutes and 2.00 interruptions a year per customer add up to the 368 minute total.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data), reliability schedule, measured under other standard. Utilities define events slightly differently, so compare with care.

• Time-of-use pricing. Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative reports a residential time-of-use pricing program in its 2025 EIA filing, with about 4,176 residential customers enrolled in dynamic pricing programs of all kinds. Ask the utility which rate schedules you qualify for. How time-of-use rates work.
• Rooftop solar and net metering. EIA shows 821 residential net-metered systems on the Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative grid in 2025, with 6.1 megawatts of capacity. How net metering works.

Owned by the members it serves. An elected board sets the rates, and members may receive capital credits when the co-op has margins to return.

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Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative is an electric cooperative based in New Mexico.

Of the 14 utilities listed for New Mexico, Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative is the 6th largest by homes, at roughly 2.0% of the state total. Its price of 17.39 cents per kWh is 1.67 cents above the median of 10 other cooperatives in New Mexico (15.72 cents). At $100.83 a month, an average Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative home pays about $74 a year more than the New Mexico average of $94.65, and uses 58 kWh a month less. Central New Mexico Electric Cooperative lists distribution equipment in 11 counties, so check your county and your bill before you assume it serves you. 821 of its residential customers use net metering, or 42.5 per 1,000 homes, against 70.2 for New Mexico as a whole.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 (final 2025 data). Peers are other utilities of the same type in New Mexico with at least 1,000 residential customers and a reported price.

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