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El Paso runs on El Paso Electric and the Western Interconnection rather than ERCOT, hosts Fort Bliss and shares a binational metro with Ciudad Juárez's assembly plants, and Meta is now building a 1 GW data center in its northeast corner. We train the electrical crews who keep its refinery, power plants and industrial sites running, at your facility or in an in-person class we set up in El Paso when you ask.
Private employers in Texas are inspected by federal OSHA. Every class is live, on the 2027 edition of NFPA 70E, and taught by a Certified Safety Professional. Texas electrical safety training requirements →
Among the teams we have trained in the last year
Four ways to train your El Paso crew
Crews we train in and around El Paso: refining, power generation and transmission, military and federal, data centers and electronics manufacturing, cross-border manufacturing and logistics, public employers.
What the class covers for El Paso crews
A refinery built in sections since 1928 holds equipment from many eras. We spend time on how equipment condition and maintenance history feed the arc flash risk assessment.
Summer work in El Paso puts crews in arc-rated clothing in extreme heat. We plan PPE selection and task scheduling with both heat stress and arc flash in mind.
Meta's campus and the McCloud plant would bring large switchgear lineups and hundreds of generator sets online in phases. We cover where construction rules end and energized work rules begin, and how to treat on-site generation that is separate from the utility grid.
Where a crew works in both English and Spanish, we keep terminology consistent so permits, job briefings and labels mean the same thing to everyone.
El Paso at a glance
Federal OSHA (El Paso Area Office)
El Paso Electric (outside ERCOT)
TDLR, statewide
ELP
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Texas: what applies to your crews
Enforcement: federal OSHA
Texas has no state plan. The federal OSHA El Paso Area Office covers El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson and other far West Texas counties. City, county and school district employees have no OSHA coverage.
Licensing: TDLR
TDLR licenses Texas electricians statewide, from apprentice to master and maintenance electrician. Crews who also work in New Mexico deal with a separate state licensing system across the line.
Where NFPA 70E fits
The federal agency does not enforce NFPA 70E. El Paso employers use the standard to show how they meet OSHA 1910 Subpart S and 1926 Subpart K, and OSHA keeps the General Duty Clause available for any recognized hazard.
El Paso's electrical work environment
Heavy industry sits close to the city core. Marathon Petroleum's El Paso refinery, about three miles east of downtown at 212 N. Clark Drive, processes roughly 133,000 barrels a day of Permian Basin and other crude with about 400 full-time employees. Its north and south sections date to Chevron in 1928 and Texaco in 1931 and were combined in 1993, so crews maintain equipment from many eras. Fort Bliss, home of the 1st Armored Division, is planning a self-contained data center on post with completion expected by 2027.
Data centers are the new load. Meta broke ground in October 2025 on a $1.5 billion campus on 1,000 acres in Northeast El Paso, with load projected above 440 MW by 2027 and possibly 1 GW by 2029. El Paso Electric has proposed the 366 MW McCloud Generation Facility, built from 813 modular gas generators, to serve the site alone for a five-year bridge period. A state administrative hearing took testimony in July 2026, and a Public Utility Commission decision is expected in December. Project Jupiter, another data center, is under construction across the line near Las Cruces.
Across the Rio Grande, Ciudad Juárez is Mexico's sixth largest city and its maquiladoras shed about 57,500 jobs between mid-2023 and mid-2025 as transportation equipment work declined. Electronics and medical device assembly grew instead, and Chihuahua and Juárez supplied almost two-thirds of Mexico's exports of computers used in data centers in 2024. On the El Paso side, Wiwynn announced a $150 million server manufacturing and testing plant, and computer and electronics trade through the El Paso district rose 87% from 2023 to 2025.
Refining, power plants, data centers and the binational corridor
These are the El Paso area sites where electrical crews spend most of their time. El Paso Electric's own plants and the new data center load are a large share of the work.
| Site | What is there | Status |
|---|---|---|
| El Paso Refinery Marathon Petroleum | About 133,000 barrels per calendar day and 400 full-time employees east of downtown. | Operating |
| Fort Bliss U.S. Army | Home of the 1st Armored Division, with an on-post data center planned for completion by 2027. | Operating |
| Newman Power Station El Paso Electric | Northeast El Paso gas plant where the 228 MW Unit 6 entered service in December 2023, replacing three aging units. | Operating |
| Meta El Paso data center Meta | $1.5 billion campus on 1,000 acres, under construction since October 2025 and planned to grow toward 1 GW. | Under construction |
| McCloud Generation Facility El Paso Electric | 366 MW of modular gas generation for the Meta site, with a PUC decision expected in December 2026. | Planned |
| Afton North, Airport and Vado 345 kV projects El Paso Electric | New substations, autotransformers and 345 kV lines plus an Eddy HVDC tie replacement, planned for May 2028. | Planned |
| Wiwynn El Paso facility Wiwynn | $150 million server manufacturing and testing plant announced for El Paso. | Planned |
| Ciudad Juárez maquiladoras Multiple manufacturers | About 259,500 maquiladora workers in August 2025, with electronics and medical devices growing. | Operating |
El Paso Electric and the Western Interconnection
El Paso is not on ERCOT. El Paso Electric serves about 465,000 customers across 10,000 square miles of the Rio Grande valley from Hatch, New Mexico, to Van Horn, Texas, and files its transmission plans with WECC as part of the Western Interconnection. It owns three units at the Palo Verde nuclear plant in Arizona totaling 633 MW and brought the 228 MW Newman Unit 6 online in December 2023, with older Newman units scheduled to retire.
The grid around the city is being rebuilt at 345 kV. EPE's WECC filing lists the Afton North, Airport and Vado substations, new 345 kV lines and an Eddy HVDC tie replacement for May 2028, plus 250 MW of solar and 283 MW of battery storage planned for 2030. If approved, the McCloud plant would run apart from EPE's transmission system for its first five years, so crews at the Meta site would work with a private generation source that is not the utility grid at all.
Who we train in El Paso and the Borderland
Electricians and I&E technicians at the Marathon refinery east of downtown.
Plant, substation and line crews and contractors on El Paso Electric's Newman station and 345 kV projects.
Facility maintenance and construction contractors on Fort Bliss, including its planned data center.
Construction and critical facility electricians at the Meta campus and the Wiwynn server plant.
Maintenance techs at plants, warehouses and logistics firms serving the Juárez maquiladoras.
City, county and school district electricians, who fall outside OSHA coverage in Texas and need their own written program.
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Questions from El Paso employers
El Paso is not on ERCOT. Does that change our electrical safety program?
We have crews in El Paso and southern New Mexico. Can one class cover both?
Can you teach in Spanish or to bilingual crews?
We are a contractor on Fort Bliss. Who enforces safety for our workers?
Does finishing the class make someone a qualified electrical worker?
What the people in the room say
“Virtual can never replace hands-on, but the engagement from our instructor and the class made it feel more engaging than some in-person courses I've taken.”
“Probably one of the most useful safety courses I've ever attended. Rick genuinely cares about people and their well-being.”
“This is the 2nd arc flash training course I've taken and the class was amazing. I feel like I'm leaving the training safer than before I took this class.”
Train your El Paso crew on the 2027 edition.
Onsite within a few days, or private live virtual as soon as tomorrow. Need it fast? Call (813) 725-0999.