Los Alamos, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC, LOS ALAMOS COUNTY

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

6

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

2 serving utilities: 8.4 to 12.1¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

29,367 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 Los Alamos

Everything here about Los Alamos, New Mexico comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Los Alamos reaches 115 kV at its highest mapped voltage, a transmission class that can carry a substantial interconnection where capacity exists. With 6 substations mapped, Los Alamos has a moderate spread of interconnection points.

Because Los Alamos, New Mexico sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. The rate for Los Alamos is the 5.9 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Los Alamos, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 2 serving utilities: 8.4 to 12.1¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Los Alamos, New Mexico in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Los Alamos, New Mexico has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. The balancing authority covering Los Alamos carries a grid carbon intensity of 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Los Alamos are 3.06 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Los Alamos, some 29,367 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

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

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