Wood, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BOWIE-CASS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CHEROKEE COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (TX), ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, TRINITY VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, UPSHUR RURAL ELEC COOP CORP, WOOD COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

21

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 9 serving utilities: 5.6 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

None on record

Proposed generation

None on file (EIA-860M)Units 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

56,273 employed in construction within ~120 km (25 of 26 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 Wood

Below, Wood in Texas is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Wood reaches 345 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 21 substations mapped, Wood offers interconnection points across many locations.

Wood falls inside the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), which governs how its interconnection requests and capacity move. The rate for Wood is the 6.5 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Wood, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 6 of 9 serving utilities: 5.6 to 9.4¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Wood, Texas in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. Nothing is on file for Wood, Texas in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. The balancing authority covering Wood carries a grid carbon intensity of 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Wood are 8.76 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Wood, some 56,273 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Wood are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Wood, Texas together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Wood, Texas is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Wood, Texas, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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