South Central Connecticut, 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

42

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.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

338,271 employed in construction within ~120 km (25 of 26 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 South Central Connecticut

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in South Central Connecticut, Connecticut. At 345 kV, South Central Connecticut carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. South Central Connecticut contains 42 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over South Central Connecticut clears through the ISONE market (ISO New England), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. South Central Connecticut carries the state industrial average retail rate of 18.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For South Central Connecticut, the per-utility spread is 4 serving utilities: 9.9 to 11.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

South Central Connecticut, Connecticut has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in South Central Connecticut, Connecticut in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over South Central Connecticut shows 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

The USGS 2015 compilation carries no entry for South Central Connecticut, Connecticut, so its withdrawals are shown as absent. South Central Connecticut sits within commuting range of roughly 338,271 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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