Duval, FL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BEACHES ENERGY SERVICES, CLAY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC, FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO, FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES CO, JEA, OKEFENOKE RURAL EL MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

100

Industrial retail rate

8.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 6 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.0¢/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

None on record

Proposed generation

175 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

1,169 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

66,139 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 Duval

Read on for the public power picture of Duval in Florida, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Duval carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Duval contains 100 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

There is no organized wholesale market over Duval, Florida; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Duval carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Duval, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 6.0 to 8.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Duval, Florida shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Duval, 174.5 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Duval shows 1,168.998 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Duval, the USGS 2015 compilation records 153.76 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Duval sits within commuting range of roughly 66,139 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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