Morris, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOWIE-CASS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LAMAR COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, UPSHUR RURAL ELEC COOP CORP, WOOD COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

15

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

3 of 7 serving utilities: 6.2 to 9.4¢/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

1 projects, 166 MW

Proposed generation

900 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

32,946 employed in construction within ~120 km (27 of 28 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 Morris

The material below frames Morris, Texas for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Morris extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 15 substations across Morris, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Morris runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Morris, 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 Morris that report an industrial rate span 3 of 7 serving utilities: 6.2 to 9.4¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 1 project for Morris, totalling 166 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M records 900 MW planned or under construction for Morris. Morris sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Morris withdrew 19.73 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 32,946 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Morris (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

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