Childress, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, GREENBELT ELECTRIC COOP, INC, HARMON ELECTRIC ASSN INC, LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWEST RURAL ELEC ASSN INC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

10

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 9 serving utilities: 4.9 to 13.1¢/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, 603 MW

Proposed generation

170 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,380 employed in construction within ~120 km (10 of 22 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 Childress

What follows is a screening-grade read of Childress, Texas, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Childress extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 10 substations across Childress, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Childress runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Childress, 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 Childress that report an industrial rate span 5 of 9 serving utilities: 4.9 to 13.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 4 projects for Childress, totalling 602.58 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 169.6 MW planned or under construction for Childress. Childress sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

Childress withdrew 10.51 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,380 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Childress (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources