Grimes, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLUEBONNET ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CENTERPOINT ENERGY, CITY OF HEMPSTEAD - (TX), ENTERGY TEXAS INC., FAYETTE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, HOUSTON COUNTY ELEC COOP INC, MID-SOUTH ELECTRIC COOP ASSN, NAVASOTA VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, SAM HOUSTON ELECTRIC COOP INC, SAN BERNARD ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

19

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

8 of 10 serving utilities: 5.9 to 10.2¢/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

20 projects, 5,440 MW

Proposed generation

210 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

218,795 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 Grimes

The material below frames Grimes, Texas for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Grimes extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 19 substations across Grimes, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Grimes runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Grimes, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.5 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Grimes that report an industrial rate span 8 of 10 serving utilities: 5.9 to 10.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 20 projects for Grimes, totalling 5,439.86 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 210 MW planned or under construction for Grimes. Grimes sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Grimes withdrew 202.74 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 218,795 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Grimes (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Grimes, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Grimes, Texas describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Grimes, Texas, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Grimes, Texas refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources