Polk, FL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF BARTOW - (FL), CITY OF FORT MEADE - (FL), CITY OF LAKELAND - (FL), CITY OF WAUCHULA - (FL), DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC, PEACE RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, REEDY CREEK IMPROVEMENT DIST, SUMTER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TAMPA ELECTRIC CO, WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER ELEC COOP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

153

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

7 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 to 22.9¢/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

115 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

855 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

264,988 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 Polk

Read on for the public power picture of Polk in Florida, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Polk carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Polk contains 153 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Polk, Florida, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Polk carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Polk, the per-utility spread is 7 of 10 serving utilities: 5.4 to 22.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Polk, Florida, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Polk, 114.7 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Polk shows 854.65 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Polk, the USGS 2015 compilation records 218.89 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Polk sits within commuting range of roughly 264,988 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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