Baltimore, MD: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ADAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC, BALTIMORE GAS & ELECTRIC CO, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

125

Industrial retail rate

12.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 3 serving utilities: 3.9¢/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

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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

320,678 employed in construction within ~120 km (39 of 41 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 Baltimore

Read on for the public power picture of Baltimore in Maryland, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Baltimore carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Baltimore contains 125 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Baltimore clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Baltimore carries the state industrial average retail rate of 12.5 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Baltimore, the per-utility spread is 1 of 3 serving utilities: 3.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Baltimore, Maryland shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Baltimore, Maryland, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Baltimore shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Baltimore, the USGS 2015 compilation records 226.9 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Baltimore sits within commuting range of roughly 320,678 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources