New Mexico · Investor Owned · investor

Public Service Co of NM Electricity Rates

Average residential price, customers served and derived annual usage from EIA Form 861, 2024 release.

15.57¢
Avg residential price / kWh
492.9K
Residential customers
+7.3%
vs New Mexico average
$1,073
Implied avg annual bill

Among 194 utilities with 100,000 or more residential customers, Public Service Co of NM ranks #78 by average cents per kWh and #55 by residential customers. Public Service Co of NM charged an average of 15.57¢ per kWh to residential customers in 2024 - close to the New Mexico average and below the Form 861 US customer-weighted average.

San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count. Public Service Co of NM is investor owned - a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Its reported average residential price is close to the New Mexico customer-weighted average (+7.3%). Its customers used below the national residential norm at about 6,892 kWh a year each.

  • San Diego Gas & Electric Co 43.63¢ · customers rank #90
  • Florida Power & Light Co 5,236,277 customers · price rank #122

Highest average rate is not the most customers

Residential customers for the average-rate #1 and customers #1 utilities among 194 with 100,000 or more residential customers

residential customers
  • FL size
    5,236,277
  • CA rate
    307,982

What this shows San Diego Gas & Electric Co ranks #1 of 194 by average residential cents per kWh (43.63¢, 307,982 customers, customers rank #90). Florida Power & Light Co ranks #1 of 194 by residential customers (5,236,277 customers at 13.71¢, price rank #122). The highest average rate is not the largest customer count.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey, latest release. Average cents per kWh and customer counts from the same rows; no tariff or bill is implied. As of 2024

EIA Form 861 utility filing desk

Release NM-2024 · Public Service Co of NM ABOVE STATE

Public Service Co of NM · Form 861 2024 · ABOVE STATE

  • RATE 15.57¢/kWh
  • RANK #13/24
  • VS-ST +7.3%
  • VS-US -9.0%
  • CUST 493k
  • BILL $1,073
  • OWN IOU
  • PHOTO NC 0.03¢
  • BOOK 55/194

Nearest Form 861 price peer: Duke Energy Progress - (NC) (NC) (-0.03¢ gap)

EIA Form 861 residential filing stamps for this utility record. Read with this utility → · New Mexico rates

Public Service Co of NM in the Form 861 price neighbourhood

Average residential ¢/kWh among this utility and nearest indexable peers

¢/kWh
  • GA
    15
  • NC
    16
  • this util
    16
  • AZ
    16
  • NJ
    16

What this shows Public Service Co of NM reports 15.57¢/kWh, corpus customer-rank 55 of 194.

Source EIA Form 861 residential survey As of 2024
D62/100

RateWatt cost context

How Public Service Co of NM compares on reported cost context

A weighted comparison, not a tariff quote, reliability grade, service-quality score, or recommendation. Lower price and lower implied annual bill score better against reporting utilities in New Mexico; the state generation context is shown separately.

Price against state peers
48/100

15.57¢/kWh · median 15.47¢/kWh

Implied annual bill against state peers
74/100

$1,073/yr · median $1,205/yr

State renewable generation context
80/100

53.4% · median 22.8%

Weights: 50% price, 30% implied annual bill, 20% state renewable-generation context. Unreported inputs are excluded and the remaining weights are redistributed. Price and bill use EIA Form 861 (2024); generation context uses EIA state generation data (2025) and is not attributed to this provider.

Rate comparison

How this price compares

Ranked by price against the 24 utilities reporting residential rates in New Mexico, Public Service Co of NM comes 13th of 24. The state's range runs from Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc at 8.91¢ to Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) at 38.00¢, so where a household sits inside New Mexico depends far more on which utility serves it than on the statewide average alone.

Against the 2 other investor owned utilities reporting in New Mexico, whose customer-weighted average is 11.10¢, Public Service Co of NM is far above its own ownership class within the state (+40.3%).

State price distribution

Where Public Service Co of NM sits among New Mexico utilities

2024 average residential price across the 24 utilities reporting a rate in New Mexico

15.57¢/kWh 48th affordability percentile More affordable than 48% of 23 other utilities

Public Service Co of NM

average residential price, equal-width bands

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Source EIA Form 861 · 2024

Public Service Co of NM average residential price against three benchmarks, 2024
BenchmarkPrice / kWhDifference
Public Service Co of NM 15.57¢ -
New Mexico (customer-weighted, 24 utilities) 14.51¢ +7.3%
US Form 861 customer-weighted average (1.5K utilities) 17.11¢ -9.0%
Investor Owned customer-weighted US avg (183 utilities) 18.37¢ -15.2%

Rate against consumption: New Mexico utilities

Each dot is one of the 24 New Mexico utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Public Service Co of NM is highlighted. In New Mexico the cheapest rate belongs to Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc (8.91¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) ($633) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 entities by Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) (X) and Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use) (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Costly rate, heavy useCheaper rate, heavy useCostly rate, light useCheaper rate, light use 050100150 050100150 Price rank percentile (100 = most expensive in state) Consumption rank percentile (100 = heaviest use)
Each dot is one of the 24 New Mexico utilities reporting both a residential price and residential sales in 2024, placed by its rank percentile within that group rather than its raw value, so one very large utility cannot flatten the rest. Bubble size follows customers served, rank-scaled so a utility with millions of customers cannot swamp the rest. Public Service Co of NM is highlighted. In New Mexico the cheapest rate belongs to Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc (8.91¢) while the smallest implied annual bill belongs to Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) ($633) - a household's bill is price multiplied by consumption, so the two rankings are different lists.

Territory and usage

Scale and consumption

Public Service Co of NM reported 492.9K residential customers, ranking 1st of 24 utilities in New Mexico by customers served and covering 55.4% of the state's reported residential customers.

Dividing reported residential sales by customers served gives about 6,892 kWh per customer per year - -10.4% against the New Mexico median of 7,694 kWh , implying a typical annual bill near $1,073.

State peers

Every utility reporting in New Mexico

All 24 utilities reporting bundled residential service in New Mexico, largest first, with Public Service Co of NM marked. The named companies either side of it are the ones a household in this state might otherwise be served by.

Residential utilities in New Mexico, 2024, ranked by customers served
Utility Ownership Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Public Service Co of NM (this page) Investor Owned 492.9K 15.57¢
Southwestern Public Service Co Investor Owned 100.5K 11.98¢
El Paso Electric Co Investor Owned 94.8K 10.16¢
City of Farmington - (NM) Municipal 36.0K 12.69¢
Jemez Mountains Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 28.1K 15.36¢
Kit Carson Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 26.1K 18.18¢
Continental Divide El Coop Inc Cooperative 20.4K 16.02¢
Central New Mexico El Coop, Inc Cooperative 19.1K 17.16¢
Otero County Electric Coop Inc Cooperative 16.4K 17.65¢
Farmers Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) Cooperative 10.3K 12.87¢
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority State 9.8K 16.53¢
Los Alamos County Municipal 7.7K 14.15¢
Lea County Electric Coop, Inc - (NM) Cooperative 7.2K 10.07¢
Central Valley Elec Coop, Inc Cooperative 6.2K 8.91¢
Roosevelt County Elec Coop Inc Cooperative 3.9K 12.07¢
Sunrun Inc. Behind the Meter 3.3K 13.59¢
Springer Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 2.5K 19.01¢
Navopache Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 1.5K 14.94¢
Southwestern Electric Coop Inc - (NM) Cooperative 1.4K 24.09¢
Sunnova Behind the Meter 866 20.07¢
Tesla Inc. Behind the Meter 350 15.82¢
Rio Grande Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 232 18.30¢
Palmetto Solar, LLC Behind the Meter 10 10.44¢
Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (OK) Cooperative 3 38.00¢

For generation mix and price history statewide, see electricity rates in New Mexico.

Ownership class peers

Investor Owned utilities with similar residential prices

Beyond New Mexico, these indexable investor owned utilities report the closest residential averages to Public Service Co of NM in the same Form 861 release. Peer sets differ by ownership class and price, not a shared national list.

Same-ownership utilities outside New Mexico nearest in residential price
Utility State Customers Avg ¢/kWh
Duke Energy Progress - (NC) North Carolina 1.4M 15.54¢
Tucson Electric Power Co Arizona 412.7K 15.63¢
Jersey Central Power & Lt Co New Jersey 964.8K 15.65¢
Georgia Power Co Georgia 2.5M 15.49¢
ALLETE, Inc. Minnesota 125.9K 15.66¢

FAQ

Common questions about Public Service Co of NM rates

How much does Public Service Co of NM charge per kWh?
Public Service Co of NM reported an average residential price of 15.57¢ per kWh across its bundled residential customers in the 2024 EIA Form 861 release. That is an annual average across all its residential customers, not a rate schedule, so an individual bill depends on the tariff, usage pattern and season.
Is Public Service Co of NM expensive compared with the rest of New Mexico?
Its average residential price is close to the New Mexico customer-weighted average of 14.51¢ per kWh, a difference of +7.3%. The state figure is weighted by customers across the 24 utilities reporting residential service in New Mexico.
What is the average electricity bill for Public Service Co of NM customers?
Dividing reported residential sales by residential customers gives about 6,892 kWh per customer per year. At the reported average price that implies roughly $1,073 a year, or about $89 a month. This is RateWatt's arithmetic on two EIA columns, not a figure EIA publishes.
Who owns Public Service Co of NM?
EIA classifies Public Service Co of NM as Investor Owned, a shareholder-owned company whose retail rates are set through a state regulatory commission. Nationally, the customer-weighted average across Investor Owned utilities was 18.37¢ per kWh in the 2024 Form 861 release.

Limitations

What this page does and does not tell you

  • An average across bundled residential customers for the year, revenue divided by sales, not a rate schedule.
  • Form 861 presence is not evidence of availability at an address or of customer choice.

See our methodology and comparing utility costs across states .

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Form 861 annual electric power industry report, 2024 release. Retrieved and formatted by RateWatt.

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional or financial advice. Data is sourced from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Rates change and averages do not describe any individual account. Consult your utility or a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Every figure on RateWatt is rendered directly from official U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data, no number is typed in by an editor. Average price, customers and sales are reported by EIA Form 861 (2024). Per-customer annual usage, the implied annual bill, the customer-weighted state average, the Form 861 US customer-weighted average, the ownership-class customer-weighted average, and every percentage difference are RateWatt's arithmetic on those reported columns, never the separate EIA retail-sales statewide series. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2025.