Hall, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, GREENBELT ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO, SWISHER ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

6

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

5 of 7 serving utilities: 4.9 to 13.1¢/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

734 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,870 employed in construction within ~120 km (11 of 21 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 Hall

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Hall, Texas. At 345 kV, Hall carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Hall contains 6 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Hall clears through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Hall carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Hall, the per-utility spread is 5 of 7 serving utilities: 4.9 to 13.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Hall, Texas has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Hall, Texas, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Hall shows 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Hall, the USGS 2015 compilation records 24.85 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Hall sits within commuting range of roughly 1,870 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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