Candler, GA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ALTAMAHA ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, EXCELSIOR ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, GEORGIA POWER CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

6

Industrial retail rate

7.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 serving utilities: 7.1 to 14.7¢/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

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

843 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

24,010 employed in construction within ~120 km (34 of 38 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 Candler

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Candler, Georgia. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Candler at its strongest mapped point. Candler contains 6 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Candler, Georgia lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Candler carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Candler, the per-utility spread is 3 serving utilities: 7.1 to 14.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Candler, Georgia shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Candler, Georgia, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Candler shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Candler, the USGS 2015 compilation records 2.91 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Candler sits within commuting range of roughly 24,010 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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