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San Juan, NM: data center power outlook

For San Juan, New Mexico, the public grid picture begins with its place in an area outside an organized wholesale market and the infrastructure mapped inside the county. Grid access across San Juan tops out at 500 kV, over a footprint of 53 mapped substations. In San Juan, 8 utilities share the retail territory, among them CITY OF AZTEC - (NM), CITY OF FARMINGTON - (NM), EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN, INC.

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CITY OF AZTEC - (NM), CITY OF FARMINGTON - (NM), EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC 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: 500 kV
Substations in county: 53
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 8 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: 1,729 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: 1,870 lb CO2/MWh
Water withdrawals: 250 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 6,770 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 San Juan

For San Juan, New Mexico, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in San Juan is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. San Juan carries 53 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

San Juan, New Mexico lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. The state industrial average retail rate is 5.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to San Juan at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in San Juan that publish a rate range 4 of 8 serving utilities: 2.6 to 23.8¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For San Juan, New Mexico, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 1,729 MW of generation as planned or under construction in San Juan. Grid carbon intensity for San Juan, via its balancing authority, is 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across San Juan at 250.37 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of San Juan, about 6,770 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 San Juan figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for San Juan, 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 San Juan, New Mexico turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for San Juan, New Mexico traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

Sources

San Juan, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CITY OF AZTEC - (NM), CITY OF FARMINGTON - (NM), EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC 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: 500 kV
Substations in county: 53
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 8 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: 1,729 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: 1,870 lb CO2/MWh
Water withdrawals: 250 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 6,770 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.