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Momentary Outages

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Momentary outages

Many times a power outage may last for a few minutes, a few seconds or even just for an instant.

We recognize nonetheless that setting blinking clocks and finding that a VCR stopped taping a television show early can be frustrating for our customers.

In years past, it was common for many outages to last far longer than a few minutes.

The automated applications we use now, however, detect outages right away and our operations center staff re-routes power around an outage area to as many customers as possible — sometimes in just a few moments.

A complete fix of an outage commonly requires repair work to be conducted by a PNM employee who travels to the location where an outage started.

Our command center's re-routing of electricity can significantly reduce the number of customers affected by a lengthy outage.