Las Animas, CO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACK HILLS COLORADO ELECTRIC, LLC, CITY OF TRINIDAD - (CO), KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO, SAN ISABEL ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, SOUTHEAST COLORADO POWER ASSN, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC COOP INC - (NM), SPRINGER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC (OK), WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

22

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 10 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

202 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

803 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

4,444 employed in construction within ~120 km (5 of 7 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 Las Animas

What follows is a screening-grade read of Las Animas, Colorado, built only from named public datasets. At 230 kV, Las Animas sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer packs 22 substations into Las Animas, a dense spread of options.

Las Animas, Colorado is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Las Animas, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 9.1 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Las Animas that report an industrial rate span 5 of 10 serving utilities: 2.6 to 13.6¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Las Animas, Colorado, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M records 201.8 MW planned or under construction for Las Animas. Las Animas sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 802.655 lb CO2 per MWh.

Las Animas withdrew 25.66 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 4,444 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Las Animas (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Las Animas, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Las Animas, Colorado describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Las Animas, Colorado, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Las Animas, Colorado refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

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