Foard, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWEST RURAL ELEC ASSN INC, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC (TX)

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

5

Industrial retail rate

6.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 8 serving utilities: 4.9 to 14.0¢/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

5 projects, 1,594 MW

Proposed generation

300 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

734 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

2,382 employed in construction within ~120 km (9 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 Foard

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Foard, Texas. At 345 kV, Foard carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Foard, Texas contains 5 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

Wholesale activity over Foard clears through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Foard carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Foard, the per-utility spread is 4 of 8 serving utilities: 4.9 to 14.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Foard carries 5 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 1,593.82 MW of requested capacity. In Foard, 300 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Foard shows 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Foard, the USGS 2015 compilation records 1.99 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Foard sits within commuting range of roughly 2,382 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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