Seneca, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC CORP, STEUBEN RURAL ELEC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

19

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

2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.0¢/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

2 projects, 170 MW

Proposed generation

10 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

50,515 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 Seneca

Read on for the public power picture of Seneca in New York, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Seneca at its strongest mapped point. Seneca contains 19 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Seneca clears through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Seneca carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Seneca, the per-utility spread is 2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Seneca carries 2 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 169.8 MW of requested capacity. In Seneca, 10 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Seneca shows 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Seneca, the USGS 2015 compilation records 16.81 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Seneca sits within commuting range of roughly 50,515 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Seneca here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Seneca, New York 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 Seneca, New York requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Seneca, New York are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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