Garfield, CO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF GLENWOOD SPRINGS - (CO), DESERET GENERATION & TRAN COOP, GRAND VALLEY POWER, HOLY CROSS ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, MOON LAKE ELECTRIC ASSN INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO, TOWN OF OAK CREEK - (CO), WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WHITE RIVER ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, YAMPA VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSN INC

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

7 of 10 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

803 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

11,406 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 Garfield

For Garfield, Colorado, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Garfield is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Garfield carries 20 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

There is no organized wholesale market over Garfield, Colorado; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 9.1 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Garfield at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Garfield that publish a rate range 7 of 10 serving utilities: 2.6 to 12.1¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Garfield, Colorado, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Garfield, Colorado in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. Grid carbon intensity for Garfield, via its balancing authority, is 802.655 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Garfield at 266.31 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Garfield, about 11,406 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 Garfield figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Garfield, Colorado 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 Garfield, Colorado turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Garfield, Colorado traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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