This cluster records who is connected to whom, because an assurance's weight depends partly on the assurer's interest in the outcome. Nothing here alleges misconduct. Institutional overlap in a mid-size regional economy is ordinary and often unavoidable; it's logged so assurances can be weighed, not so motives can be assumed.
The Borderplex Alliance — the private-sector-led regional economic development organization for the El Paso / Las Cruces / Ciudad Juárez region — recruited and is publicly credited with assembling this transaction, including in its own announcements.
The organization that brought the deal to the City is not a neutral party to assessments of the deal's impacts.
El Paso Electric's Chief Executive Officer serves on the Borderplex Alliance's executive committee, and was earlier appointed to its board — documented in the utility's own communications.
The utility whose executive told residents "absolutely not" on rate impacts (Cluster A) is represented at the executive-committee level of the organization that recruited the project. This is a governance record, not an inference.
Checked: board and executive-committee membership, investor listings. Found: only that the Alliance describes having "collaborated on efforts with city, county and state partners, including El Paso Water and El Paso Electric" — general language, not a governance tie. No board seat, executive-committee seat, or membership was verified for El Paso Water.
El Paso Water is a municipally owned utility governed by its own public board. Treating it as institutionally aligned with the Alliance on the same footing as the electric utility is not supported by the evidence gathered, and the two should be described asymmetrically.
SOURCES: EL PASO MATTERS, OCT. 2025 · KFOX14 · EL PASO INC. · EL PASO ELECTRIC PRESS RELEASES · BORDERPLEX ALLIANCE PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS. FULL CITATIONS ON THE SOURCES PAGE.