Hitchcock, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF STRATTON - (NE), CITY OF TRENTON - (NE), HIGHLINE ELECTRIC ASSN, MCCOOK PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, PRAIRIE LAND ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWEST PUBLIC POWER DIST, Y-W ELECTRIC ASSN INC

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

11

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

3 of 7 serving utilities: 10.0 to 17.3¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,924 employed in construction within ~120 km (13 of 18 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 Hitchcock

Read on for the public power picture of Hitchcock in Nebraska, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Hitchcock at its strongest mapped point. Hitchcock contains 11 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Hitchcock clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Hitchcock carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Hitchcock, the per-utility spread is 3 of 7 serving utilities: 10.0 to 17.3¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Hitchcock, Nebraska has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Hitchcock, Nebraska, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Hitchcock shows 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Hitchcock, the USGS 2015 compilation records 26.56 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Hitchcock sits within commuting range of roughly 1,924 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources