Nolan, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, BIG COUNTRY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, COLEMAN COUNTY ELEC COOP, INC, CONCHO VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, TAYLOR ELECTRIC COOP INC - (TX)

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

27

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 6 serving utilities: 5.4 to 11.8¢/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

18 projects, 4,441 MW

Proposed generation

731 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

8,104 employed in construction within ~120 km (13 of 19 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 Nolan

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Nolan, Texas. At 345 kV, Nolan carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Nolan contains 27 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Nolan clears through the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Nolan carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Nolan, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 5.4 to 11.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Nolan carries 18 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 4,441.01 MW of requested capacity. In Nolan, 731 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Nolan shows 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Nolan, the USGS 2015 compilation records 12.25 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Nolan sits within commuting range of roughly 8,104 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources