Brewster, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, RIO GRANDE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTHWEST TEXAS ELEC COOP, INC, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

3

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

2 of 4 serving utilities: 7.7 to 10.2¢/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

2 projects, 229 MW

Proposed generation

None on file (EIA-860M)Units 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

607 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 Brewster

Read on for the public power picture of Brewster in Texas, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Brewster carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Brewster, Texas contains 3 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

Brewster, Texas lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Brewster carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Brewster, the per-utility spread is 2 of 4 serving utilities: 7.7 to 10.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Brewster carries 2 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 228.9 MW of requested capacity. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Brewster, Texas, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Brewster shows 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Brewster, the USGS 2015 compilation records 2.94 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Brewster sits within commuting range of roughly 607 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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