Onondaga, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., ONEIDA-MADISON ELEC COOP, INC, OTSEGO ELECTRIC COOP, INC, ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC CORP, VILLAGE OF SKANEATELES - (NY), VILLAGE OF SOLVAY - (NY)

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

200

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

4 of 7 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.1¢/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

1 projects, 162 MW

Proposed generation

25 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

34,400 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 Onondaga

What follows is a screening-grade read of Onondaga, New York, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Onondaga extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 200 substations into Onondaga, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Onondaga runs through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator) and its rules. For Onondaga, 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 Onondaga that report an industrial rate span 4 of 7 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Onondaga, totalling 162 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 25.3 MW planned or under construction for Onondaga. Onondaga sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

Onondaga withdrew 80.17 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 34,400 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Onondaga (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources