Bristol, MA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANS AUTHORITY, MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC CO, NSTAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC CO, TOWN OF BRAINTREE - (MA), TOWN OF MANSFIELD - (MA), TOWN OF MIDDLEBOROUGH - (MA), TOWN OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH - (MA)

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

66

Industrial retail rate

19.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

7 of 9 serving utilities: 9.2 to 19.1¢/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

189 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

207,258 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 Bristol

The material below frames Bristol, Massachusetts for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Bristol extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 66 substations into Bristol, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Bristol runs through the ISONE market (ISO New England) and its rules. For Bristol, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 19.4 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Bristol that report an industrial rate span 7 of 9 serving utilities: 9.2 to 19.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Bristol, Massachusetts, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M records 189 MW planned or under construction for Bristol. Bristol sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

Bristol withdrew 41.9 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 207,258 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Bristol (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Bristol, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Bristol, Massachusetts describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Bristol, Massachusetts, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Bristol, Massachusetts refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources