Atascosa, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS CENTRAL COMPANY, BANDERA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, GUADALUPE VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, KARNES ELECTRIC COOP INC, MEDINA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, NUECES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, PEDERNALES ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SAN PATRICIO ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTH TEXAS ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

15

Industrial retail rate

6.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

7 of 9 serving utilities: 5.4 to 24.7¢/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

12 projects, 1,677 MW

Proposed generation

106 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

734 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

69,897 employed in construction within ~120 km (15 of 17 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 Atascosa

The material below frames Atascosa, Texas for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Atascosa extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 15 substations across Atascosa, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Atascosa runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Atascosa, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Atascosa that report an industrial rate span 7 of 9 serving utilities: 5.4 to 24.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 12 projects for Atascosa, totalling 1,676.87 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 105.5 MW planned or under construction for Atascosa. Atascosa sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

Atascosa withdrew 33.35 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 69,897 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Atascosa (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Atascosa, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Atascosa, Texas describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Atascosa, Texas, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Atascosa, Texas refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

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