Hamilton, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COMANCHE COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, HAMILTON COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC COOP, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, PEDERNALES ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, UNITED ELECTRIC COOP SERVICE INC - (TX)

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

5

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

4 of 7 serving utilities: 5.6 to 10.9¢/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

None on record

Proposed generation

10 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

31,485 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 Hamilton

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Hamilton, Texas that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Hamilton is 138 kV, squarely transmission class. Across Hamilton, Texas, the mapped layer holds just 5 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

For Hamilton, the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 6.5 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Hamilton at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Hamilton that publish a rate range 4 of 7 serving utilities: 5.6 to 10.9¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Hamilton, Texas, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 10 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Hamilton. Grid carbon intensity for Hamilton, via its balancing authority, is 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Hamilton at 1.94 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Hamilton, about 31,485 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Hamilton figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Hamilton, Texas qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Hamilton, Texas turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Hamilton, Texas traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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