Hillsborough, FL: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF LAKELAND - (FL), DUKE ENERGY FLORIDA, LLC, FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO, PEACE RIVER ELECTRIC COOP, INC, TAMPA ELECTRIC CO, WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER ELEC COOP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

226

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

6 serving utilities: 5.4 to 22.9¢/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

855 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

222,833 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 Hillsborough

Read on for the public power picture of Hillsborough in Florida, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Hillsborough at its strongest mapped point. Hillsborough contains 226 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Hillsborough, Florida lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Hillsborough carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Hillsborough, the per-utility spread is 6 serving utilities: 5.4 to 22.9¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Hillsborough, Florida shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Hillsborough, 74.5 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Hillsborough shows 854.65 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Hillsborough, the USGS 2015 compilation records 269.64 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Hillsborough sits within commuting range of roughly 222,833 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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