Cherry, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CHERRY-TODD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, CITY OF VALENTINE - (NE), CUSTER PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, KBR RURAL PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, LACREEK ELECTRIC ASSN, INC, NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, NORTHWEST RURAL PUB PWR DIST, PANHANDLE RURAL EL MEMBER ASSN, ROSEBUD ELECTRIC COOP INC, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

6

Industrial retail rate

8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

2 of 10 serving utilities: 4.5 to 13.0¢/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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

432 employed in construction within ~120 km (7 of 9 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 Cherry

What follows is a screening-grade read of Cherry, Nebraska, built only from named public datasets. At 115 kV, Cherry sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 6 substations across Cherry, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Cherry runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Cherry, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Cherry that report an industrial rate span 2 of 10 serving utilities: 4.5 to 13.0¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Cherry, Nebraska carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Nothing is on file for Cherry, Nebraska in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Cherry sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Cherry withdrew 69.06 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 432 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Cherry (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Cherry, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Cherry, Nebraska describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Cherry, Nebraska, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Cherry, Nebraska refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources