Orleans, NY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

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

ISO / market

NYISO (New York Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

12

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

2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.5 to 2.7¢/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

1 projects, 200 MW

Proposed generation

136 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

49,172 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 Orleans

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Orleans, New York. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Orleans at its strongest mapped point. Orleans contains 12 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Orleans clears through the NYISO market (New York Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Orleans carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.6 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Orleans, the per-utility spread is 2 of 3 serving utilities: 2.5 to 2.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Orleans carries 1 project in the interconnection queue, totalling 200 MW of requested capacity. In Orleans, 135.8 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Orleans shows 479.212 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Orleans, the USGS 2015 compilation records 5.17 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Orleans sits within commuting range of roughly 49,172 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources