Choctaw, OK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOWIE-CASS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CHOCTAW ELECTRIC COOP INC, FANNIN COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, LAMAR COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA, SOUTHEASTERN ELECTRIC COOP INC - (OK), TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

10

Industrial retail rate

6.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 8 serving utilities: 5.6 to 5.9¢/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

85 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

11,710 employed in construction within ~120 km (19 of 20 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 Choctaw

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Choctaw, Oklahoma that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Choctaw is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Choctaw carries 10 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Choctaw, the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 6.2 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Choctaw at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Choctaw that publish a rate range 3 of 8 serving utilities: 5.6 to 5.9¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Choctaw, Oklahoma, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 85 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Choctaw. Grid carbon intensity for Choctaw, via its balancing authority, is 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Choctaw at 9.52 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Choctaw, about 11,710 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 Choctaw figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Choctaw, Oklahoma 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 Choctaw, Oklahoma turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Choctaw, Oklahoma traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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