Calculator: Your Community's Numbers
Adjust the parameters below to match your community's utility and the proposed data center. See how different configurations affect projected electricity costs.
460,000 residential customers in rate base
Proposed 2GW hyperscale facility; PSO facing 31% power deficit by 2031 with 779MW of new large load requests
Community & Utility
Number of residential electric accounts
Typical residential electricity bill
Utility's current peak demand (e.g., PSO ~4 GW)
Average residential monthly consumption
Quick Presets
Projected Monthly Bill
For a 560,000-customer utility with a 2000 MW data center
Your Monthly Bill: Now vs 10 Years
Today
$130
per month
Baseline (10 years)
$202
without data center
Best Case (10 years)
$192
with optimized DC
-9.62 vs baseline
All Scenarios (Compared to Baseline)
Baseline
Current cost trajectory with normal infrastructure aging
$201.89/mo
(baseline)
Firm Load
Data center as firm load: lower utilization, full peak contribution
$204.74/mo
+$2.86 vs baseline
Flexible Load
With demand response: higher utilization, 25% curtailable (DCFlex validated)
$198.25/mo
$-3.64 vs baseline
Flex + Dispatchable
Demand response plus onsite generation during system peaks
$192.26/mo
$-9.62 vs baseline
Cumulative Cost Over 10 Years
Total electricity costs per household over the projection period
No New Load
$22k
80% LF, 100% Peak
$22k
+$273 vs baseline
95% LF, 75% Peak
$21k
$-349 vs baseline
DR + Generation
$21k
$-912 vs baseline
Each household could save $1k over 10 years if the utility and regulators require flexible operations with dispatchable generation instead of allowing unoptimized firm load.
Key Findings for Your Community
Optimized DC vs Baseline
-$9.62/mo
vs no data center (best case)
Value of Optimization
$12.48/mo
optimized vs firm load DC
Annual Community Benefit
$83.9M
optimized vs firm load, all households
Lifetime Benefit
$1k
per household over 10 years
Visualize Grid Impact
See hourly load profiles and load duration curves for each scenario
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