Parmer, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BAILEY COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, DEAF SMITH ELECTRIC COOP, INC, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (NM), LAMB COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, ROOSEVELT COUNTY ELEC COOP INC, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWESTERN PUBLIC SERVICE CO, SWISHER ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

138 kV

Substations in county

20

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 8 serving utilities: 4.9 to 7.8¢/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

None on record

Proposed generation

265 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

5,434 employed in construction within ~120 km (12 of 14 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 Parmer

What follows is a screening-grade read of Parmer, Texas, built only from named public datasets. At 138 kV, Parmer sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 20 substations across Parmer, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Parmer runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Parmer, 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 Parmer that report an industrial rate span 5 of 8 serving utilities: 4.9 to 7.8¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Parmer, Texas carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 265 MW planned or under construction for Parmer. Parmer sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Parmer withdrew 141.19 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 5,434 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Parmer (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources