8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):

May 28, 2015

El Paso Electric Company

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Texas	001-14206	74-0607870
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
Stanton Tower, 100 North Stanton, El Paso, Texas		79901
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

(915) 543-5711

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

¨ Written communication pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

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Item 5.07.   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

El Paso Electric Company (the “Company”) held its annual meeting of shareholders on May 28, 2015.  As of the close of business on the record date, March 30, 2015, the Company had a total of 40,389,970 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the annual meeting, of which 38,270,868 shares were represented at the meeting in person or by proxy.  The primary purpose of the annual meeting was to give our shareholders the opportunity to vote on three matters:  (i) the election of Class III directors; (ii) the ratification of the selection of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015; and (iii) a non-binding advisory vote on the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers, commonly referred to as a “say on pay” vote.  A detailed discussion of each of these proposals can be found in our definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 17, 2015.

Proposal 1:  Election of Class III Directors

At the annual meeting, our shareholders elected the following persons to serve as Class III directors to hold office for a three-year term expiring at our annual meeting of shareholders to be held in 2018:

Director	Votes For	Votes Withheld	Broker Non-Votes
James W. Harris	36,992,139	234,735	1,043,994
Woodley L. Hunt	36,812,971	413,903	1,043,994
Stephen N. Wertheimer	36,991,784	235,090	1,043,994
Charles A. Yamarone	37,007,021	219,853	1,043,994

In addition to the Class III directors listed above, the following individuals continue to serve as Class I and Class II directors following the meeting: Catherine A. Allen, John Robert Brown, James W. Cicconi, Edward Escudero, Patricia Z. Holland-Branch, Thomas V. Shockley, III and Eric B. Siegel.

Proposal 2:   Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

At the annual meeting, our shareholders ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015 by the following vote:

Description	Number of Votes
FOR	38,115,477
AGAINST	138,258
ABSTAIN	17,133

Proposal 3:  Advisory Vote on the Company’s Executive Compensation

At the annual meeting, our shareholders approved an advisory vote on the Company’s executive compensation “say on pay” for our named executive officers by the following vote:

Description	Number of Votes
FOR	35,716,626
AGAINST	1,464,210
ABSTAIN	46,038
BROKER NON-VOTES	1,043,994

Item 8.01. Other Events.

On May 28, 2015, the Company announced that the Board of Directors approved an increase to the quarterly cash dividend to $0.295per share of common stock from its current quarterly rate of $0.28per share, commencing with the June 30, 2015 dividend payment, which will be payable to shareholders of record on June 16, 2015.  

The Company’s press release announcing the dividend increase is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The information in Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibit
99.1	Press Release Dated May 28, 2015

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: May 28, 2015

EL PASO ELECTRIC COMPANY

(Registrant)

By: /s/    Nathan T. Hirschi

Name:    Nathan T. Hirschi

Title:    Senior Vice President - Chief Financial Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit Number	Description of Exhibit
99.1	Press Release Dated May 28, 2015

EX-99.1

EXHIBIT 99.1

	News Release

www.epelectric.com

May 28, 2015

El Paso Electric Announces an Increase in the Quarterly Dividend

El Paso, Texas -The Board of Directors of El Paso Electric (NYSE:EE) has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $0.295 per share. The dividend was declared on May 28, 2015 and is payable on June 30, 2015, to shareholders of record on June 16, 2015. At the new rate, the indicated annualized cash dividend would be $1.18 per share for the following year, up from $1.12 per share paid in the last four quarters.

El Paso Electric is a regional electric utility providing generation, transmission and distribution service to approximately 400,000 retail and wholesale customers in a 10,000 square mile area of the Rio Grande valley in west Texas and southern New Mexico. El Paso Electric has a net dependable generating capability of 2,010 MW.

Safe Harbor

This news release includes statements that may constitute forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This information may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to: (i) increased prices for fuel and purchased power and the possibility that regulators may not permit EE to pass through all such increased costs to customers or to recover previously incurred fuel costs in rates; (ii) recovery of capital investments and operating costs through rates in Texas and New Mexico; (iii) uncertainties and instability in the general economy and the resulting impact on EE's sales and profitability; (iv) changes in customers’ demand for electricity as a result of energy efficiency initiatives and emerging competing services and technologies; (v) unanticipated increased costs associated with scheduled and unscheduled outages of generating plant; (vi) the size of our construction program and our ability to complete construction on budget; (vii) potential delays in our construction schedule due to legal challenges or other reasons; (viii) costs at Palo Verde; (ix) deregulation and competition in the electric utility industry; (x) possible increased costs of compliance with environmental or other laws, regulations and policies; (xi) possible income tax and interest payments as a result of audit adjustments proposed by the IRS or state taxing authorities; (xii) uncertainties and instability in the financial markets and the resulting impact on EE's ability to access the capital and credit markets; (xiii) possible physical or cyber-attacks, intrusions or other catastrophic events; and (xiv) other factors detailed by EE in its public filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. EE's filings are available from the Securities and Exchange Commission or may be obtained through EE's website, http://www.epelectric.com. Any such forward-looking statement is qualified by reference to these risks and factors. EE cautions that these risks and factors are not exclusive. EE does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of EE except as required by law.

Public Relations Eddie Gutierrez | 915.543.5763 eduardo.gutierrez@epelectric.com Investor Relations Lisa Budtke | 915.543.5947 lisa.budtke@epelectric.com Richard Gonzalez | 915.543.2236 richard.gonzalez@epelectric.com