Pope, AR: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ARKANSAS VALLEY ELEC COOP CORP, CARROLL ELECTRIC COOP CORP - (AR), ENTERGY ARKANSAS LLC, OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO, PETIT JEAN ELECTRIC COOP CORP

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

8

Industrial retail rate

6.7¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 serving utilities: 5.9 to 14.1¢/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

4 projects, 800 MW

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

982 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

28,461 employed in construction within ~120 km (22 of 25 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 Pope

What follows is a screening-grade read of Pope, Arkansas, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Pope extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 8 substations across Pope, a moderate density.

Interconnection over Pope runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Pope, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.7 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Pope that report an industrial rate span 5 serving utilities: 5.9 to 14.1¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The queue feeds show 4 projects for Pope, totalling 800 MW of requested capacity. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Pope, Arkansas, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Pope sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 981.982 lb CO2 per MWh.

Pope withdrew 963.44 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 28,461 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Pope (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources