Orange, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL HUDSON GAS & ELEC CORP, JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LT CO, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO, NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, ORANGE & ROCKLAND UTILS INC, PIKE COUNTY LIGHT & POWER CO, ROCKLAND ELECTRIC CO, SUSSEX RURAL ELECTRIC COOP INC, VILLAGE OF ROUSES POINT - (NY)

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

46

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 5.3¢/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

5 projects, 720 MW

Proposed generation

178 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

360,197 employed in construction within ~120 km (35 of 36 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 Orange

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Orange, New York that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Orange is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Orange carries 46 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Orange, 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 Orange at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Orange that publish a rate range 3 of 9 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.3¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Orange are 5 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 720 MW of requested capacity. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 177.5 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Orange. Grid carbon intensity for Orange, via its balancing authority, is 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Orange at 219.23 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Orange, about 360,197 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 Orange figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Orange, 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 Orange, New York turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Orange, 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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