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Santa Fe, NM: data center power outlook

For Santa Fe, New Mexico, the public grid picture begins with its place in an area outside an organized wholesale market and the infrastructure mapped inside the county. Grid access across Santa Fe tops out at 345 kV, over a footprint of 28 mapped substations. In Santa Fe, 6 utilities share the retail territory, among them CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC.

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC, LOS ALAMOS COUNTY, MORA-SAN MIGUEL ELEC COOP, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM
ISO / market: NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
Highest grid access: 345 kV
Substations in county: 28
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: 5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.6 to 12.1¢/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: 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: 35 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 29,513 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 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 Santa Fe

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Santa Fe, New Mexico that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Santa Fe is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Santa Fe carries 28 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

Santa Fe, 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. The state industrial average retail rate is 5.9 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Santa Fe at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Santa Fe that publish a rate range 5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.6 to 12.1¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Santa Fe, New Mexico has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Santa Fe, New Mexico, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. Grid carbon intensity for Santa Fe, via its balancing authority, is 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Santa Fe at 34.82 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Santa Fe, about 29,513 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 Santa Fe figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Santa Fe, 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 Santa Fe, New Mexico turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Santa Fe, New Mexico traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

Sources

Santa Fe, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities: CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), JEMEZ MOUNTAINS ELEC COOP, INC, LOS ALAMOS COUNTY, MORA-SAN MIGUEL ELEC COOP, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF NM
ISO / market: NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
Highest grid access: 345 kV
Substations in county: 28
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: 5 of 6 serving utilities: 5.6 to 12.1¢/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: 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: 35 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
Construction labor near site: 29,513 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 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.