Greenlee, AZ: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COLUMBUS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DUNCAN VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, GRAHAM COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP INC, MORENCI WATER AND ELECTRIC, NAVOPACHE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM, SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY E C INC, USBIA-SAN CARLOS PROJECT, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

6

Industrial retail rate

8.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 9 serving utilities: 1.9 to 15.7¢/kWhLowest to highest industrial rate among the utilities serving this county (EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers). A spread, not the county’s rate, and it covers only the serving utilities that report one.

Interconnection queue

None on record

Proposed generation

None on file (EIA-860M)Units filed with EIA as planned or under construction (Form EIA-860M). Declared intent from the federal inventory, not the interconnection queue and not guaranteed capacity.

Grid carbon intensity

1,621 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

18 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,121 employed in construction within ~120 kmA large build needs hundreds of skilled construction workers on site for one to three years. A county with few of them within commuting range means bussing crews in, per diem, and housing, which is real cost and schedule risk. This counts people employed in construction within about a 120 km drive (BLS QCEW), summed across nearby counties. It is not labor known to be available: most are already committed to other projects, and no public data reveals who is free.

Grid conditions in Greenlee

Everything here about Greenlee, Arizona comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Greenlee reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 6 substations mapped, Greenlee has a moderate spread of interconnection points.

Sitting outside any organized market, Greenlee, Arizona handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. The rate for Greenlee is the 8.1 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Greenlee, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 5 of 9 serving utilities: 1.9 to 15.7¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Across the covered feeds, Greenlee, Arizona carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Nothing is on file for Greenlee, Arizona in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Greenlee carries a grid carbon intensity of 1,621.219 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Greenlee are 17.87 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Greenlee, some 1,121 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Greenlee are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Greenlee, Arizona together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Greenlee, Arizona is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Greenlee, Arizona, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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