Naugatuck Valley, CT: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CONNECTICUT LIGHT & POWER CO, FARMINGTON RIVER POWER COMPANY, TOWN OF WALLINGFORD - (CT), UNITED ILLUMINATING CO

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

34

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

4 serving utilities: 9.9 to 11.0¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

374,086 employed in construction within ~120 km (27 of 28 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 Naugatuck Valley

Everything here about Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut comes from public federal and state records, with the gaps left visible. Naugatuck Valley reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 34 substations mapped, Naugatuck Valley offers interconnection points across many locations.

Naugatuck Valley falls inside the ISONE market (ISO New England), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Naugatuck Valley is the 18.4 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Naugatuck Valley, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 4 serving utilities: 9.9 to 11.0¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Nothing is on file for Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Naugatuck Valley carries a grid carbon intensity of 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 has no withdrawal entry for Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut, so the water figure is shown absent rather than as a zero. Around Naugatuck Valley, some 374,086 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Naugatuck Valley are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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