Franklin, GA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC COOP INC - (SC), DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, GEORGIA POWER CO, HART ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, JACKSON ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP - (GA)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

18

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 5 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.6¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

111,053 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 Franklin

Read on for the public power picture of Franklin in Georgia, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Franklin carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Franklin contains 18 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

There is no organized wholesale market over Franklin, Georgia; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Franklin carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Franklin, the per-utility spread is 3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.6¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Franklin, Georgia shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. For Franklin, Georgia, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Franklin shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Franklin, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.65 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Franklin sits within commuting range of roughly 111,053 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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