Power by county
Delta, CO: data center power outlook
The grid around Delta, Colorado is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Delta the mapped layer shows 20 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 345 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Delta is split among 5 utilities, among them CITY OF DELTA - (CO), DELTA MONTROSE ELECTRIC ASSN, GRAND VALLEY POWER.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- CITY OF DELTA - (CO), DELTA MONTROSE ELECTRIC ASSN, GRAND VALLEY POWER, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 345 kV
- Substations in county
- 20
- Industrial retail rate
- 9.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.6 to 12.1¢/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
- 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
- 1,870 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 360 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 14,008 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 Delta
Read on for the public power picture of Delta in Colorado, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Delta carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Delta contains 20 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
No organized wholesale market covers Delta, Colorado, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Delta carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Delta, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 2.6 to 12.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
Delta, Colorado has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Delta, Colorado, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Delta shows 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Delta, the USGS 2015 compilation records 360.3 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Delta sits within commuting range of roughly 14,008 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Delta here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Delta, Colorado settles a site on its own; each one qualifies the others, and all of them come from public federal and state datasets. Settling a site in Delta, Colorado requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Delta, Colorado are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.