Cumberland, PA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ADAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO, PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC CO, PPL ELECTRIC UTILITIES CORP, WEST PENN POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

43

Industrial retail rate

9.4¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 5 serving utilities: 10.2¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

160,875 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 Cumberland

Read on for the public power picture of Cumberland in Pennsylvania, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Cumberland carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Cumberland contains 43 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Cumberland clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Cumberland carries the state industrial average retail rate of 9.4 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Cumberland, the per-utility spread is 1 of 5 serving utilities: 10.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Cumberland, Pennsylvania shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Cumberland shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Cumberland, the USGS 2015 compilation records 32.36 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Cumberland sits within commuting range of roughly 160,875 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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