Northampton, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

COMMUNITY ELECTRIC COOP, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), HALIFAX ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, MECKLENBURG ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, ROANOKE ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

8

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 6 serving utilities: 7.9 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

58,660 employed in construction within ~120 km (43 of 47 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 Northampton

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Northampton, North Carolina. At 500 kV, Northampton carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Northampton contains 8 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Northampton clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Northampton carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Northampton, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.9 to 11.0¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Northampton, North Carolina shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Northampton, North Carolina in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Northampton shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Northampton, the USGS 2015 compilation records 5.31 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Northampton sits within commuting range of roughly 58,660 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources