Baker, FL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BEACHES ENERGY SERVICES, CLAY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC, DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC, FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO, FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES CO, GEORGIA POWER CO, JEA, OKEFENOKE RURAL EL MEMBER CORP, SLASH PINE ELEC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

7

Industrial retail rate

8.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.0 to 9.7¢/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

75 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

597 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

66,937 employed in construction within ~120 km (23 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 Baker

What follows is a screening-grade read of Baker, Florida, built only from named public datasets. At 230 kV, Baker sits in the transmission class that a large load would look to. The mapped layer places 7 substations across Baker, a moderate density.

Because Baker, Florida sits outside an organized market, capacity and interconnection are handled by the utility and bilateral deals, not a market operator. For Baker, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.8 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Baker that report an industrial rate span 5 of 9 serving utilities: 6.0 to 9.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Baker, Florida carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 74.5 MW planned or under construction for Baker. Baker sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 597.091 lb CO2 per MWh.

Baker withdrew 3.62 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 66,937 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Baker (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources