Lewis, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., ONEIDA-MADISON ELEC COOP, INC, OTSEGO ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

31

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

1 of 3 serving utilities: 2.7¢/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

1 projects, 125 MW

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

479 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

20,709 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 Lewis

What follows is a screening-grade read of Lewis, New York, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Lewis extends to 765 kV, the extra-high-voltage class. The mapped layer packs 31 substations into Lewis, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Lewis runs through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Lewis, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 9.6 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Lewis that report an industrial rate span 1 of 3 serving utilities: 2.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Lewis, totalling 125 MW of requested capacity. Lewis, New York has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Lewis sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

Lewis withdrew 6.29 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 20,709 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Lewis (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Lewis, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Lewis, New York describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Lewis, New York, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Lewis, New York refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources