Newport, RI: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC CO, NSTAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC CO, TOWN OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH - (MA)

ISO / market

ISONE (ISO New England)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

13

Industrial retail rate

21.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 4 serving utilities: 12.4¢/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

541 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

189,535 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 Newport

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Newport, Rhode Island that bears on a large new load. The strongest mapped access in Newport is 115 kV, squarely transmission class. Newport carries 13 substations in the mapped layer, spread across the county.

For Newport, the ISONE market (ISO New England) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 21.7 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Newport at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Newport that publish a rate range 1 of 4 serving utilities: 12.4¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Newport, Rhode Island, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Newport, Rhode Island in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. Grid carbon intensity for Newport, via its balancing authority, is 541.365 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Newport at 8.55 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Newport, about 189,535 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 Newport figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Newport, Rhode Island 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 Newport, Rhode Island turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Newport, Rhode Island traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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