Why El Paso Electric

For more than 120 years, El Paso Electric Company has worked to help our region grow by providing safe, sustainable and reliable energy for our customers. El Paso Electric understands that affordable and reliable electrical service is a key component of growth for businesses of all sizes. We offer a variety of resources to help businesses achieve their goals and succeed in our service region, because it’s our home. 

Economic Incentives

EPE has an extensive portfolio of development incentives designed to help customers save money on electricity costs. 

 

Economic Development Rate (EDR)

EPE offers an Economic Development Rate to qualifying new and existing customers in our target industries. To learn more about the EDR rates for Texas or New Mexico, click here:

• Texas Tariffs
• New Mexico Tariffs

 

Energy Efficiency Programs 

Our programs provide technical assistance and financial incentives to help commercial customers increase their energy efficiency and save money. El Paso Electric received the ENERGY STAR^® Partner of the Year award in 2018. To learn more about our commercial energy efficiency programs visit the EPE Savings website.

 

State Incentives

• TEXAS: Comprehensive list of State Incentives & Programs provided by: The Texas Economic Development Corporation (TXEDC) and The Governor’s Office of Economic Development and Tourism (EDT)
• NEW MEXICO: Comprehensive list of incentives and programs provided by: New Mexico Economic Development Department

Our Region

The Paso del Norte region is an interconnection of resources, economic development, and culture. Among its more notable offerings are cost-competitive electric power with excellent reliability and capacity, a high performance of solar resources, and a welcoming pro-business climate. Our region also offers a strong pipeline of talent distributed across five universities and three medical schools.

 

 

Friendly Business Climate

EPE’s two-state service territory offers a variety of pro-business tax structures and incentive programs to attract and retain investment.

 

Foreign Trade Zones

Within EPE’s service territory there are three (3) Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ). The FTZ program allows U.S.-based companies to defer, reduce or even eliminate Customs duties on products admitted to the zone. Additional benefits of a FTZ include streamline logistics, shorter transit time, duty elimination on exports and many more.

• FTZ No. 68 – El Paso
• FTZ No. 150 – El Paso
• FTZ No. 197 – Doña Ana County 

 

Favorable Location

• Temperate year-round weather with an average 302 sunny days per year (US average is 205 sunny days).
• One of the largest international markets in North America.
• Our central U.S. location insulates your business from the prospect of natural disasters and EPE’s reliability standards ensure your business can keep running dependably.

 

Key Industries

Historically and continuing through to today, the Paso del Norte region has always served as a strategic gateway for the movement of people, goods and services between the West and East coasts, and even beyond North America. Thanks to a widely diversified economy that ranges from business services and manufacturing to government defense and research facilities, the Paso del Norte region provides corporations, small businesses, and individuals with the tools and resources to thrive and succeed.

• Data centers
• Manufacturing
• Warehousing and Distribution
• Scientific and Industrial R&D
• Corporate Relocations

 

Data Centers

El Paso Electric’s region offers attractive business locations for technology companies, co-location facilities and onsite data centers. Our region’s major advantages include cost-competitive electric power with excellent reliability and capacity, redundant fiber, high performance of solar resources and a pro-business climate. 

 

Strong access to bandwidth and fiber 
Multiple major fiber providers serve EPE markets with both long and short haul fiber.