Passaic, NJ: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOROUGH OF BUTLER - (NJ), JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LT CO, ORANGE & ROCKLAND UTILS INC, PUBLIC SERVICE ELEC & GAS CO, ROCKLAND ELECTRIC CO, SUSSEX RURAL ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

16

Industrial retail rate

13.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 6 serving utilities: 4.0 to 11.7¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

451,167 employed in construction within ~120 km (36 of 37 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 Passaic

Read on for the public power picture of Passaic in New Jersey, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Passaic carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Passaic contains 16 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Passaic clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Passaic carries the state industrial average retail rate of 13.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Passaic, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 4.0 to 11.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Passaic, New Jersey has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Passaic, New Jersey, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Passaic shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Passaic, the USGS 2015 compilation records 275.2 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Passaic sits within commuting range of roughly 451,167 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources