Hidalgo, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COLUMBUS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DUNCAN VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM, SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY E C INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

9

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

2 of 5 serving utilities: 2.6 to 5.6¢/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

2 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

394 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

2,945 employed in construction within ~120 km (3 of 4 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 Hidalgo

For Hidalgo, New Mexico, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Hidalgo is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Hidalgo carries 9 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

There is no organized wholesale market over Hidalgo, New Mexico; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. The state industrial average retail rate is 5.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Hidalgo at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Hidalgo that publish a rate range 2 of 5 serving utilities: 2.6 to 5.6¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Hidalgo, New Mexico shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 1.7 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Hidalgo. Grid carbon intensity for Hidalgo, via its balancing authority, is 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Hidalgo at 48.54 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Hidalgo, about 2,945 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Hidalgo figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Hidalgo, New Mexico qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Hidalgo, New Mexico turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Hidalgo, New Mexico traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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