Spartanburg, SC: 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), GREER COMMISSION OF PUBLIC WKS, LAURENS ELECTRIC COOP, INC, LOCKHART POWER CO, RUTHERFORD ELEC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

142

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

6 of 8 serving utilities: 5.8 to 9.0¢/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

485 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

112,150 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 Spartanburg

What follows is a screening-grade read of Spartanburg, South Carolina, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Spartanburg extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 142 substations into Spartanburg, a dense spread of options.

Sitting outside any organized market, Spartanburg, South Carolina handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Spartanburg, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.1 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Spartanburg that report an industrial rate span 6 of 8 serving utilities: 5.8 to 9.0¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Spartanburg, South Carolina carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Spartanburg, South Carolina, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Spartanburg sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 484.617 lb CO2 per MWh.

Spartanburg withdrew 40.92 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 112,150 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Spartanburg (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Spartanburg, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Spartanburg, South Carolina describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Spartanburg, South Carolina, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Spartanburg, South Carolina refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources