Torrance, NM: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL NEW MEXICO EL COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), SOCORRO ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

6

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 3 serving utilities: 7.9 to 9.1¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

28,218 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 Torrance

What follows is a screening-grade read of Torrance, New Mexico, built only from named public datasets. At 230 kV, Torrance sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 6 substations across Torrance, a moderate density.

Sitting outside any organized market, Torrance, New Mexico handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Torrance, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 5.9 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Torrance that report an industrial rate span 2 of 3 serving utilities: 7.9 to 9.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Torrance, New Mexico, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Torrance, New Mexico has no EIA-860M generation on file, which reads as zero rather than as a gap. Torrance sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 394.248 lb CO2 per MWh.

Torrance withdrew 43.73 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 28,218 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Torrance (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Torrance, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Torrance, New Mexico describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Torrance, New Mexico, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Torrance, New Mexico refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources