Lee, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARTLETT ELECTRIC COOP, INC, BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF BARTLETT - (TX), CITY OF GIDDINGS - (TX), CITY OF LEXINGTON - (TX), ENTERGY TEXAS INC., FAYETTE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, GUADALUPE VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, HEART OF TEXAS ELECTRIC COOP, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, PEDERNALES ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SAN BERNARD 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

7 of 12 serving utilities: 5.4 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

None on record

Proposed generation

1,290 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

105,747 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 Lee

For Lee, Texas, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Lee is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Lee, Texas shows 2 substations in the mapped layer, a thin spread across the county.

For Lee, 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 Lee at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Lee that publish a rate range 7 of 12 serving utilities: 5.4 to 10.2¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Lee, Texas shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 1,290 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Lee. Grid carbon intensity for Lee, via its balancing authority, is 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Lee at 11.65 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Lee, about 105,747 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 Lee figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Lee, 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 Lee, Texas turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Lee, Texas traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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