Morris, NJ: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOROUGH OF BUTLER - (NJ), BOROUGH OF MADISON - (NJ), JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LT CO, PUBLIC SERVICE ELEC & GAS CO, SUSSEX RURAL ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

33

Industrial retail rate

13.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 5 serving utilities: 4.0 to 6.2¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

446,340 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 Morris

Below, Morris in New Jersey is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Morris reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 33 substations mapped, Morris offers interconnection points across many locations.

Morris falls inside the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Morris is the 13.9 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Morris, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 2 of 5 serving utilities: 4.0 to 6.2¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Morris, New Jersey, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Morris, New Jersey has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. The balancing authority covering Morris carries a grid carbon intensity of 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Morris are 102.29 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Morris, some 446,340 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Morris are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Morris, New Jersey 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 Morris, New Jersey is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Morris, New Jersey, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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