Power by county
Baker, GA: data center power outlook
The grid around Baker, Georgia is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Baker the mapped layer shows 2 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 500 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Baker is split among 4 utilities, among them GEORGIA POWER CO, GRADY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP, MITCHELL ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- GEORGIA POWER CO, GRADY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP, MITCHELL ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, THREE NOTCH ELEC MEMBER CORP
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 500 kV
- Substations in county
- 2
- Industrial retail rate
- 7.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.
- Per-utility rates in county
- 3 of 4 serving utilities: 7.1 to 20.2¢/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
- 843 lb CO2/MWh
- Water withdrawals
- 25 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 20,731 employed in construction within ~120 km (28 of 35 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 Baker
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Baker, Georgia. At 500 kV, Baker carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Baker, Georgia shows 2 substations in the mapped layer, a thin spread across the county.
No organized wholesale market covers Baker, Georgia, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Baker carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Baker, the per-utility spread is 3 of 4 serving utilities: 7.1 to 20.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Baker, Georgia, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. For Baker, Georgia, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Baker shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Baker, the USGS 2015 compilation records 24.54 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Baker sits within commuting range of roughly 20,731 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Baker here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Baker, Georgia 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 Baker, Georgia requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Baker, Georgia are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.