Simpson, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF FRANKLIN - (KY), CUMBERLAND ELEC MEMBER CORP, PENNYRILE RURAL ELECTRIC COOP, TRI-COUNTY ELEC MEMBER CORP (TN), WARREN RURAL ELEC COOP CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

10

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

4 of 5 serving utilities: 5.8 to 7.2¢/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

80 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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

78,552 employed in construction within ~120 km (38 of 44 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 Simpson

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Simpson, Kentucky. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Simpson at its strongest mapped point. Simpson contains 10 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

There is no organized wholesale market over Simpson, Kentucky; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Simpson carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Simpson, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 5.8 to 7.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Simpson, Kentucky, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Simpson, 79.7 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Simpson shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Simpson, the USGS 2015 compilation records 1.94 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Simpson sits within commuting range of roughly 78,552 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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