El Paso Electric

Black & Veatch, a global engineering consulting company, has completed its cold weather assessment of El Paso Electric’s generation facilities. Black & Veatch has made recommendations for modifications and upgrades to our generation facilities to facilitate continuous and reliable operation during periods of extreme cold weather as experienced in February 2011. 

El Paso Electric is continuing to review the recommendations in the report and is developing detailed plans to implement plant modifications to address the February outages.  The report has been submitted to the following regulatory entities:

• City of El Paso
• Public Utility Commission of Texas
• New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• Western Electricity Coordinating Council
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Since some of these regulatory authorities are currently conducting inquiries regarding EPE’s power outages during the February 2011 freeze,  EPE must refrain from answering specific questions pertaining to the Black & Veatch report until the regulatory authorities have an opportunity to complete their inquires.  Once those inquiries are complete, EPE will make a public presentation on all the February freeze reports.

Legal Notice 
This report was prepared for El Paso Electric (EPE) by Black & Veatch Corporation (B&V) for EPE’s sole use in its business, including both operations and regulatory filings and proceedings. B&V disclaims any liability for the use of this report by any other party. Use of this report or any information contained therein by any party other than El Paso Electric or its affiliates, shall constitute a waiver and release by such third party of B&V from and against all claims and liability, including, but not limited to, liability for special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages in connection with such use.

 Cold Weather Protection Assessment Report, compiled by Black & Veatch, June 2011