Henderson, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC COOP INC - (SC), BROAD RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FRENCH BROAD ELEC MEMBER CORP, HAYWOOD ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, RUTHERFORD ELEC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

26

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: 7.8 to 11.8¢/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

0 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

68,902 employed in construction within ~120 km (37 of 38 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 Henderson

Read on for the public power picture of Henderson in North Carolina, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Henderson at its strongest mapped point. Henderson contains 26 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Henderson, 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. Henderson carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Henderson, the per-utility spread is 5 of 7 serving utilities: 7.8 to 11.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Henderson, North Carolina has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Henderson, North Carolina, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Henderson shows 0 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Henderson, the USGS 2015 compilation records 18.99 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Henderson sits within commuting range of roughly 68,902 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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