Harnett, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP. - (NC), DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION, NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN M P A, SOUTH RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP, TOWN OF BLACK CREEK - (NC)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

23

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

5 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9 to 7.9¢/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

482 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

112,353 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 Harnett

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Harnett, North Carolina. At 500 kV, Harnett carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Harnett contains 23 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Harnett, North Carolina lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Harnett carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Harnett, the per-utility spread is 5 of 7 serving utilities: 6.9 to 7.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Harnett, North Carolina has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Harnett, North Carolina in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Harnett shows 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Harnett, the USGS 2015 compilation records 33.4 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Harnett sits within commuting range of roughly 112,353 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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