Chautauqua, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

JAMESTOWN BOARD OF PUBLIC UTIL, NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC CO, STEUBEN RURAL ELEC COOP, INC, VILLAGE OF BROCTON - (NY), VILLAGE OF MAYVILLE - (NY), VILLAGE OF WESTFIELD - (NY), WARREN ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

59

Industrial retail rate

9.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 9 serving utilities: 2.5 to 7.2¢/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

6 projects, 881 MW

Proposed generation

528 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

479 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

33,441 employed in construction within ~120 km (13 of 14 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 Chautauqua

For Chautauqua, New York, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Chautauqua is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Chautauqua carries 59 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Chautauqua, the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 9.6 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Chautauqua at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Chautauqua that publish a rate range 3 of 9 serving utilities: 2.5 to 7.2¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Chautauqua are 6 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 881 MW of requested capacity. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 528.4 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Chautauqua. Grid carbon intensity for Chautauqua, via its balancing authority, is 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Chautauqua at 134.05 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Chautauqua, about 33,441 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 Chautauqua figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Chautauqua, New York 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 Chautauqua, New York turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Chautauqua, New York traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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