Kiowa, CO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACK HILLS COLORADO ELECTRIC, LLC, K C ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION, MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEC ASSN, INC, SOUTHEAST COLORADO POWER ASSN, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WHEATLAND ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

1

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

5 of 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 13.6¢/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

300 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

1,870 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

486 employed in construction within ~120 km (5 of 11 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 Kiowa

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Kiowa, Colorado. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Kiowa at its strongest mapped point. Across Kiowa, Colorado, the mapped layer holds just 1 substation, so options gather at a handful of places.

Kiowa, Colorado lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Kiowa carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Kiowa, the per-utility spread is 5 of 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 13.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Kiowa, Colorado has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Kiowa, 300 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Kiowa shows 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Kiowa, the USGS 2015 compilation records 2.18 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Kiowa sits within commuting range of roughly 486 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Kiowa here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Kiowa, 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 Kiowa, Colorado requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Kiowa, Colorado are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources