St. Lawrence, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., OTSEGO ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TOWN OF MASSENA - (NY)

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

765 kV

Substations in county

113

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 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.2¢/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

4 projects, 632 MW

Proposed generation

240 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,285 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 St. Lawrence

The material below frames St. Lawrence, New York for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in St. Lawrence extends to 765 kV, the extra-high-voltage class. The mapped layer packs 113 substations into St. Lawrence, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over St. Lawrence runs through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator) and its rules. For St. Lawrence, 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 St. Lawrence that report an industrial rate span 3 of 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 4 projects for St. Lawrence, totalling 632.1 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 240 MW planned or under construction for St. Lawrence. St. Lawrence sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

St. Lawrence withdrew 31.05 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 5,285 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of St. Lawrence (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources