A clearer viewfor Socorro.
Across the high desert of New Mexico, Socorro Electric Cooperative keeps its communities connected.
Founded in 1945, Socorro Electric Cooperative is owned by the members it serves. Its lines connect rural communities including Magdalena, Alamo, and Datil, as well as the Very Large Array. Keeping that network reliable means caring for thousands of miles of line across vast distances and difficult mountain terrain, through changing weather conditions.
When Socorro installed its first Nyquis Node at a substation, an unexpected waveform made the technician wonder whether something had gone wrong with the installation. After checking the connections, the Nyquis team confirmed that the technology was working as expected. It had revealed an unexpected phase shift along the feeder. A routine installation had surfaced an issue the team hadn’t known to look for.
With the Node in place, the team can find faults, narrow the crew's survey window, and see where vegetation needs attention. Since deployment, the cooperative has found and remediated many faults. Every day, the team enjoys a clearer view of the grid it cares for.
How Nyquis helps
- Continuous monitoring
- Fault detection and location
- Vegetation management
- Wildfire risk reduction
- Overall system health and reliability
“Nyquis helped our crews get within 500 feet of an undiscovered issue that was causing outages.”
Socorro Electric Cooperative
For crews patrolling thousands of miles of line across remote terrain, knowing where to start matters. Nyquis gives Socorro a focused place to begin an investigation, helping the team find faults before they become outages.