Lubbock, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BAILEY COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, BIG COUNTRY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF LUBBOCK - (TX), LAMB COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LYNTEGAR ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO, SWISHER ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

81

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

8 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

1 projects, 226 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

9,621 employed in construction within ~120 km (12 of 20 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 Lubbock

What follows is a screening-grade read of Lubbock, Texas, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Lubbock extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 81 substations into Lubbock, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Lubbock runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Lubbock, 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 Lubbock that report an industrial rate span 8 of 9 serving utilities: 4.9 to 13.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Lubbock, totalling 226.4 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Lubbock, Texas, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Lubbock sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Lubbock withdrew 156.42 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 9,621 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Lubbock (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources