Bee, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS CENTRAL COMPANY, GUADALUPE VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, KARNES ELECTRIC COOP INC, NUECES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, SAN PATRICIO ELECTRIC COOP INC, VICTORIA ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

2

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

5 of 6 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

11 projects, 1,839 MW

Proposed generation

528 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

30,109 employed in construction within ~120 km (16 of 18 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 Bee

Read on for the public power picture of Bee in Texas, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Bee carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Across Bee, Texas, the mapped layer holds just 2 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

Wholesale activity over Bee clears through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Bee carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Bee, the per-utility spread is 5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.4 to 24.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Bee carries 11 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 1,839.28 MW of requested capacity. In Bee, 527.9 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Bee shows 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Bee, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.6 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Bee sits within commuting range of roughly 30,109 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources