Colfax, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), KIT CARSON ELECTRIC COOP, INC, MORA-SAN MIGUEL ELEC COOP, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF COLORADO, RATON PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC COOP INC - (NM), SPRINGER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TOWN OF SPRINGER - (NM), TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC (OK)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

24

Industrial retail rate

5.9¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 9 serving utilities: 7.3 to 11.9¢/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

394 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

960 employed in construction within ~120 km (5 of 8 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 Colfax

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Colfax, New Mexico. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Colfax at its strongest mapped point. Colfax contains 24 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Colfax, New Mexico lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Colfax carries the state industrial average retail rate of 5.9 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Colfax, the per-utility spread is 4 of 9 serving utilities: 7.3 to 11.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Colfax, New Mexico, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Colfax, New Mexico, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Colfax shows 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Colfax, the USGS 2015 compilation records 56.3 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Colfax sits within commuting range of roughly 960 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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