Lower Connecticut River Valley, CT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF NORWICH - (CT), CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO, FARMINGTON RIVER POWER COMPANY, MOHEGAN TRIBAL UTILITY AUTHORITY, TOWN OF WALLINGFORD - (CT), UNITED ILLUMINATING CO

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

14

Industrial retail rate

18.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 6 serving utilities: 9.9 to 18.4¢/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

275 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

541 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

Not in the USGS 2015 compilationAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

247,102 employed in construction within ~120 km (24 of 25 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 Lower Connecticut River Valley

Read on for the public power picture of Lower Connecticut River Valley in Connecticut, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Lower Connecticut River Valley carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Lower Connecticut River Valley contains 14 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Lower Connecticut River Valley clears through the ISONE market (ISO New England), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Lower Connecticut River Valley carries the state industrial average retail rate of 18.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Lower Connecticut River Valley, the per-utility spread is 5 of 6 serving utilities: 9.9 to 18.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Lower Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Lower Connecticut River Valley, 275 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Lower Connecticut River Valley shows 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

The USGS 2015 compilation carries no entry for Lower Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, so its withdrawals are shown as absent. Lower Connecticut River Valley sits within commuting range of roughly 247,102 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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