Medina, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS CENTRAL COMPANY, BANDERA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF CASTROVILLE - (TX), CITY OF HONDO - (TX), GUADALUPE VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, KARNES ELECTRIC COOP INC, MEDINA ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PEDERNALES ELECTRIC COOP, INC, RIO GRANDE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTH TEXAS ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

18

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

6 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 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

7 projects, 956 MW

Proposed generation

180 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

72,344 employed in construction within ~120 km (14 of 15 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 Medina

What follows is a screening-grade read of Medina, Texas, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Medina extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 18 substations across Medina, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Medina runs through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) and its rules. For Medina, 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 Medina that report an industrial rate span 6 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 to 10.2¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 7 projects for Medina, totalling 955.85 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 180.4 MW planned or under construction for Medina. Medina sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

Medina withdrew 41.27 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 72,344 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Medina (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources