Richland, SC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BLACK RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (SC), DOMINION ENERGY SOUTH CAROLINA, INC, DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FAIRFIELD ELECTRIC COOP, INC, MID-CAROLINA ELECTRIC COOP INC, NEWBERRY ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TRI-COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC (SC)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

135

Industrial retail rate

7.1¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

8 serving utilities: 7.0 to 11.2¢/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

745 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

53,025 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 Richland

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Richland, South Carolina. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Richland at its strongest mapped point. Richland contains 135 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

No organized wholesale market covers Richland, South Carolina, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Richland carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.1 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Richland, the per-utility spread is 8 serving utilities: 7.0 to 11.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Richland, South Carolina has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. For Richland, South Carolina, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Richland shows 745.159 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Richland, the USGS 2015 compilation records 74.39 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Richland sits within commuting range of roughly 53,025 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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