Conejos, CO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, NORTHERN RIO ARRIBA E COOP INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO, SAN LUIS VALLEY R E C, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

69 kV

Substations in county

6

Industrial retail rate

9.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.7 to 19.6¢/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

803 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

2,265 employed in construction within ~120 km (8 of 10 counties reporting)A 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 Conejos

Read on for the public power picture of Conejos in Colorado, assembled for data center siting. Grid access in Conejos peaks at 69 kV, below the transmission class most large loads look for. Conejos contains 6 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

No organized wholesale market covers Conejos, Colorado, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Conejos carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Conejos, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.7 to 19.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Conejos, Colorado, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Conejos, Colorado, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Conejos shows 802.655 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Conejos, the USGS 2015 compilation records 310.95 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Conejos sits within commuting range of roughly 2,265 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Conejos here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Conejos, Colorado settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Conejos, Colorado requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Conejos, Colorado are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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