Cayuga, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

NEW YORK STATE ELEC & GAS CORP, NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP., ROCHESTER GAS & ELECTRIC CORP, VILLAGE OF SKANEATELES - (NY)

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

26

Industrial retail rate

9.6¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.0¢/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

4 projects, 335 MW

Proposed generation

137 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

479 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

50,148 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 Cayuga

Read on for the public power picture of Cayuga in New York, assembled for data center siting. At 345 kV, Cayuga carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Cayuga contains 26 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Cayuga clears through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Cayuga carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Cayuga, the per-utility spread is 3 of 4 serving utilities: 2.5 to 5.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Cayuga carries 4 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 335 MW of requested capacity. In Cayuga, 137 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Cayuga shows 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Cayuga, the USGS 2015 compilation records 8.72 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Cayuga sits within commuting range of roughly 50,148 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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