Essex, VT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

GREEN MOUNTAIN POWER CORP, LIBERTY UTILITIES (GRANITE STATE ELECTRI, NEW HAMPSHIRE ELEC COOP INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NH, VERMONT ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC, VILLAGE OF LYNDONVILLE - (VT)

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

450 kV

Substations in county

1

Industrial retail rate

12.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 6 serving utilities: 10.8 to 12.9¢/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

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

541 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

16,107 employed in construction within ~120 km (12 of 13 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 Essex

What follows is a screening-grade read of Essex, Vermont, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Essex extends to 450 kV, a high-voltage line class. Essex, Vermont carries a thin 1-substation footprint in the mapped layer, concentrating where a connection could land.

Interconnection over Essex runs through the ISONE market (ISO New England) and its rules. For Essex, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 12.4 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Essex that report an industrial rate span 2 of 6 serving utilities: 10.8 to 12.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Essex, Vermont carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Essex, Vermont has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Essex sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

Essex withdrew 0.68 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 16,107 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Essex (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources