Chowan, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALBEMARLE ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, ROANOKE ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, TOWN OF EDENTON - (NC), VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

4

Industrial retail rate

7.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 4 serving utilities: 8.1 to 11.0¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

48,428 employed in construction within ~120 km (34 of 36 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 Chowan

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Chowan, North Carolina. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Chowan at its strongest mapped point. Across Chowan, North Carolina, the mapped layer holds just 4 substations, so options gather at a handful of places.

Wholesale activity over Chowan clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Chowan carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Chowan, the per-utility spread is 3 of 4 serving utilities: 8.1 to 11.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Chowan, North Carolina, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Chowan, North Carolina in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Chowan shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Chowan, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.58 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Chowan sits within commuting range of roughly 48,428 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources