La Salle, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS CENTRAL COMPANY, KARNES ELECTRIC COOP INC, MEDINA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, NUECES ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, RIO GRANDE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SAN PATRICIO ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

4

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 6 serving utilities: 6.2 to 24.7¢/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, 1,710 MW

Proposed generation

1,300 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

3,387 employed in construction within ~120 km (5 of 9 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 La Salle

This page gathers the public grid evidence for La Salle, Texas that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in La Salle is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Across La Salle, Texas, the mapped layer holds just 4 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

For La Salle, the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 6.5 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to La Salle at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in La Salle that publish a rate range 5 of 6 serving utilities: 6.2 to 24.7¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for La Salle are 6 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 1,710.47 MW of requested capacity. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 1,300 MW of generation as planned or under construction in La Salle. Grid carbon intensity for La Salle, via its balancing authority, is 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across La Salle at 11.29 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of La Salle, about 3,387 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 La Salle figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for La Salle, Texas 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 La Salle, Texas turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for La Salle, Texas traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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