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
Multiple large data center proposals; 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 1000 MW data center
Your Monthly Bill: Now vs 10 Years
Baseline (10 years)
$202
without data center
Best Case (10 years)
$200
with optimized data center
-1.81 vs baseline
All Scenarios (Compared to Baseline)
Baseline
Current cost trajectory with normal infrastructure aging
$201.89/mo
(baseline)
Typical Data Center
Data center as firm load: lower utilization, full peak contribution
$207.80/mo
+$5.92 vs baseline
Flexible Data Center
With demand response: higher utilization, 25% curtailable (DCFlex validated)
$203.56/mo
+$1.67 vs baseline
Optimized Data Center
Demand response plus onsite generation during system peaks
$200.08/mo
$-1.81 vs baseline
Cumulative Cost Over 10 Years
Total electricity costs per household over the projection period
No Data Center
$22k
80% LF, 100% Peak
$22k
+$546 vs baseline
95% LF, 75% Peak
$22k
+$154 vs baseline
DR + Generation
$21k
$-167 vs baseline
Each household could save $713 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 Data Center vs Baseline
-$1.81/mo
vs no data center (best case)
Value of Optimization
$7.72/mo
optimized vs typical data center
Annual Community Benefit
$51.9M
optimized vs firm load, all households
Lifetime Benefit
$713
per household over 10 years
Visualize Grid Impact
See hourly load profiles and load duration curves for each scenario
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