Rio Arriba, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC, KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY, NORTHERN RIO ARRIBA E COOP INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

12

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

4 of 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 23.8¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

4,454 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 Rio Arriba

The material below frames Rio Arriba, New Mexico for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Rio Arriba extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 12 substations across Rio Arriba, a moderate density.

Sitting outside any organized market, Rio Arriba, New Mexico handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Rio Arriba, 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 Rio Arriba that report an industrial rate span 4 of 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 23.8¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Rio Arriba, New Mexico carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Rio Arriba, New Mexico, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Rio Arriba sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh.

Rio Arriba withdrew 104.26 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 4,454 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Rio Arriba (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Rio Arriba, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Rio Arriba, 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 Rio Arriba, New Mexico, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Rio Arriba, New Mexico refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources