El Paso Electric is a public utility company, engaging in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. The Company's energy sources consist of nuclear fuel, natural gas, coal, purchased power, solar and wind turbines. It owns several electrical generating facilities that serve residential, commercial, industrial, public authority, and wholesale customers and distributes electricity to retail customers principally in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico as well as resells electricity to electric utilities and power marketers.