Grant, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COLUMBUS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DUNCAN VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM, SIERRA ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

16

Industrial retail rate

5.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 4 serving utilities: 5.6¢/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

5 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

394 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,144 employed in construction within ~120 km (3 of 4 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 Grant

The material below frames Grant, New Mexico for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Grant extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 16 substations across Grant, a moderate density.

Sitting outside any organized market, Grant, New Mexico handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Grant, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 5.9 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Grant that report an industrial rate span 1 of 4 serving utilities: 5.6¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Grant, New Mexico in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 4.8 MW planned or under construction for Grant. Grant sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh.

Grant withdrew 81.02 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,144 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Grant (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources