Montezuma, CO: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, LA PLATA ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, NAVAJO TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY, PACIFICORP, SAN MIGUEL POWER ASSN, INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

31

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 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 16.4¢/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

140 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

1,870 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

7,088 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 of 8 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 Montezuma

Read on for the public power picture of Montezuma in Colorado, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Montezuma carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Montezuma contains 31 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Montezuma, Colorado, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Montezuma carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Montezuma, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 2.6 to 16.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Montezuma, Colorado has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Montezuma, 140 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Montezuma shows 1,869.537 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Montezuma, the USGS 2015 compilation records 191.99 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Montezuma sits within commuting range of roughly 7,088 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

Every figure for Montezuma here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Montezuma, 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 Montezuma, Colorado requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Montezuma, Colorado are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.

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