Lancaster, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BUTLER PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT - (NE), CITY OF HICKMAN - (NE), LINCOLN ELECTRIC SYSTEM, NORRIS PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

91

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

4 of 5 serving utilities: 7.0 to 8.9¢/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

852 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

49,552 employed in construction within ~120 km (27 of 31 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 Lancaster

What follows is a screening-grade read of Lancaster, Nebraska, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Lancaster extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 91 substations into Lancaster, a dense spread of options.

Interconnection over Lancaster runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Lancaster, 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 Lancaster that report an industrial rate span 4 of 5 serving utilities: 7.0 to 8.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Lancaster, Nebraska, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M records 852 MW planned or under construction for Lancaster. Lancaster sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Lancaster withdrew 10.32 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 49,552 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Lancaster (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources