Grayson, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF WHITESBORO - (TX), COOKE COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, DENTON COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, FANNIN COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (TX), GRAYSON-COLLIN ELEC COOP, INC, LAMAR COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, RED RIVER VALLEY RRL ELEC ASSN, SOUTHEASTERN ELECTRIC COOP INC - (OK), TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC (TX), WISE ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

29

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 14 serving utilities: 6.2 to 31.7¢/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

4 projects, 1,287 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

226,874 employed in construction within ~120 km (24 of 25 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 Grayson

What follows is a screening-grade read of Grayson, Texas, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Grayson extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 29 substations into Grayson, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Grayson runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Grayson, 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 Grayson that report an industrial rate span 5 of 14 serving utilities: 6.2 to 31.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 4 projects for Grayson, totalling 1,286.68 MW of requested capacity. Nothing is on file for Grayson, Texas in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Grayson sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

Grayson withdrew 27.09 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 226,874 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Grayson (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources