Calhoun, FL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF BLOUNTSTOWN - (FL), DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC, FLORIDA PUBLIC UTILITIES CO, GULF COAST ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TALQUIN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, WEST FLORIDA EL COOP ASSN, INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

3

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

4 of 6 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

149 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

843 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

27,435 employed in construction within ~120 km (19 of 20 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 Calhoun

Read on for the public power picture of Calhoun in Florida, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Calhoun at its strongest mapped point. Calhoun, Florida contains 3 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

There is no organized wholesale market over Calhoun, Florida; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Calhoun carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Calhoun, the per-utility spread is 4 of 6 serving utilities: 6.0 to 9.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Calhoun, Florida shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Calhoun, 149 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Calhoun shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Calhoun, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.73 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Calhoun sits within commuting range of roughly 27,435 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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