San Miguel, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC, MORA-SAN MIGUEL ELEC COOP, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC COOP INC - (NM), SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO, SPRINGER ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

7

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

7 of 8 serving utilities: 4.5 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

3,413 employed in construction within ~120 km (5 of 6 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 San Miguel

Read on for the public power picture of San Miguel in New Mexico, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, San Miguel carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. San Miguel contains 7 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over San Miguel clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. San Miguel carries the state industrial average retail rate of 5.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For San Miguel, the per-utility spread is 7 of 8 serving utilities: 4.5 to 12.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For San Miguel, New Mexico, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For San Miguel, New Mexico, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over San Miguel shows 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh.

For San Miguel, the USGS 2015 compilation records 36.87 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. San Miguel sits within commuting range of roughly 3,413 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for San Miguel here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for San Miguel, New Mexico settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in San Miguel, New Mexico requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for San Miguel, New Mexico are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

Sources