Lincoln, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), LEA COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, OTERO COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM, RIO GRANDE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SIERRA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOCORRO ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

4

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

6 of 9 serving utilities: 4.5 to 14.3¢/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

394 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,222 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 Lincoln

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Lincoln, New Mexico that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Lincoln is 138 kV, squarely transmission class. Across Lincoln, New Mexico, the mapped layer holds just 4 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

There is no organized wholesale market over Lincoln, New Mexico; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 5.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Lincoln at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Lincoln that publish a rate range 6 of 9 serving utilities: 4.5 to 14.3¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Lincoln, New Mexico has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Lincoln, New Mexico, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Lincoln, via its balancing authority, is 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Lincoln at 23.76 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Lincoln, about 1,222 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Lincoln figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Lincoln, New Mexico qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Lincoln, New Mexico turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Lincoln, New Mexico traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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