Washington, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP, NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

22

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 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 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

3 projects, 140 MW

Proposed generation

5 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

40,231 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 Washington

Everything here about Washington, New York comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Washington reaches 115 kV at its highest mapped voltage, a transmission class that can carry a substantial interconnection where capacity exists. With 22 substations mapped, Washington offers interconnection points across many locations.

Washington falls inside the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Washington is the 9.6 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Washington, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 2 of 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 2.7¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Washington has 3 interconnection-queue projects on record, totalling 140 MW of requested capacity. Washington has 5 MW of planned or under-construction generation on file in EIA-860M. The balancing authority covering Washington carries a grid carbon intensity of 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Washington are 33.91 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Washington, some 40,231 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Washington are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Washington, New York together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Washington, New York is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Washington, New York, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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