Henderson, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CHEROKEE COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (TX), HILCO ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC., HOUSTON COUNTY ELEC COOP INC, LYNTEGAR ELECTRIC COOP, INC, NAVARRO COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, NAVASOTA VALLEY ELEC COOP, INC, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, TRINITY VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, UNITED ELECTRIC COOP SERVICE INC - (TX), UPSHUR RURAL ELEC COOP CORP, WOOD COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

22

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

10 of 13 serving utilities: 5.6 to 9.8¢/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

6 projects, 1,201 MW

Proposed generation

100 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

138,468 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 Henderson

Below, Henderson in Texas is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Henderson reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 22 substations mapped, Henderson offers interconnection points across many locations.

Henderson falls inside the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Henderson is the 6.5 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Henderson, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 10 of 13 serving utilities: 5.6 to 9.8¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

Henderson has 6 interconnection-queue projects on record, totalling 1,200.67 MW of requested capacity. Henderson has 100 MW of planned or under-construction generation on file in EIA-860M. The balancing authority covering Henderson carries a grid carbon intensity of 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Henderson are 11.07 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Henderson, some 138,468 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Henderson are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Henderson, Texas together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Henderson, Texas is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Henderson, Texas, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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