Transylvania, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC COOP INC - (SC), DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), HAYWOOD ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

22

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: 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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

67,145 employed in construction within ~120 km (43 of 44 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 Transylvania

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Transylvania, North Carolina. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Transylvania at its strongest mapped point. Transylvania contains 22 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Transylvania, North Carolina, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Transylvania carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Transylvania, the per-utility spread is 3 of 4 serving utilities: 7.8 to 11.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Transylvania, 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 Transylvania, North Carolina, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Transylvania shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Transylvania, the USGS 2015 compilation records 210.13 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Transylvania sits within commuting range of roughly 67,145 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources