Power by county
Teller, CO: data center power outlook
The grid around Teller, Colorado is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Teller the mapped layer shows 7 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 230 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Teller is split among 3 utilities, among them BLACK HILLS COLORADO ELECTRIC, LLC, CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- BLACK HILLS COLORADO ELECTRIC, LLC, CORE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 7
- 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
- 3 serving utilities: 2.6 to 9.9¢/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
- 803 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 9.5 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 103,730 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 Teller
Read on for the public power picture of Teller in Colorado, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Teller at its strongest mapped point. Teller contains 7 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
Teller, Colorado lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Teller carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Teller, the per-utility spread is 3 serving utilities: 2.6 to 9.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Teller, Colorado, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Teller, Colorado, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Teller shows 802.655 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Teller, the USGS 2015 compilation records 9.5 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Teller sits within commuting range of roughly 103,730 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Teller here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Teller, 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 Teller, Colorado requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Teller, Colorado are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.