San Jacinto, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTERPOINT ENERGY, ENTERGY TEXAS INC., HOUSTON COUNTY ELEC COOP INC, MID-SOUTH ELECTRIC COOP ASSN, ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, SAM HOUSTON ELECTRIC COOP INC, SAM RAYBURN MUNICIPAL PWR AGNY, SAN BERNARD ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

MISO (Midcontinent Independent System Operator)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

7

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: 5.9 to 9.0¢/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

4 projects, 575 MW

Proposed generation

467 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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

204,069 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 San Jacinto

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in San Jacinto, Texas. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in San Jacinto at its strongest mapped point. San Jacinto contains 7 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over San Jacinto clears through the MISO market (Midcontinent Independent System Operator), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. San Jacinto carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For San Jacinto, the per-utility spread is 5 of 8 serving utilities: 5.9 to 9.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

San Jacinto carries 4 projects in the interconnection queue, totalling 575 MW of requested capacity. In San Jacinto, 467.3 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over San Jacinto shows 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

For San Jacinto, the USGS 2015 compilation records 3.06 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. San Jacinto sits within commuting range of roughly 204,069 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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