Belknap, NH: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

LIBERTY UTILITIES (GRANITE STATE ELECTRI, NEW HAMPSHIRE ELEC COOP INC, NEW HAMPTON VILLAGE PRECINCT, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NH, TOWN OF ASHLAND

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

9

Industrial retail rate

16.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.3 to 10.4¢/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

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

66,035 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 Belknap

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Belknap, New Hampshire. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Belknap at its strongest mapped point. Belknap contains 9 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Belknap clears through the ISONE market (ISO New England), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Belknap carries the state industrial average retail rate of 16.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Belknap, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.3 to 10.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Belknap, New Hampshire, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Belknap, New Hampshire, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Belknap shows 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Belknap, the USGS 2015 compilation records 8.49 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Belknap sits within commuting range of roughly 66,035 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources