Fulton, GA: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF EAST POINT - (GA), CITY OF FAIRBURN - (GA), CITY OF PALMETTO - (GA), COBB ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP, COWETA-FAYETTE EL MEMBER CORP, GEORGIA POWER CO, GREYSTONE POWER CORPORATION, SAWNEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

124

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

5 of 8 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.0¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

167,462 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 Fulton

Below, Fulton in Georgia is described from public data as a starting point for siting diligence. Fulton reaches 500 kV, a high-voltage transmission class, at its strongest mapped point of grid access. With 124 substations mapped, Fulton offers interconnection points across many locations.

Fulton, Georgia is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. The rate for Fulton is the 7.8 cents per kWh state industrial average (EIA-861), the same figure the map colours by. Across Fulton, reported per-utility industrial rates cover 5 of 8 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.0¢/kWh, offered only as context beneath the state figure.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Fulton, Georgia in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Fulton, Georgia, which is a national filing and so a real zero. The balancing authority covering Fulton carries a grid carbon intensity of 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

Reported freshwater withdrawals for all uses in Fulton are 199.14 million gallons per day in the USGS 2015 compilation, existing demand rather than water free for a new load. Around Fulton, some 167,462 people work in construction within about a 120 km commute (BLS QCEW), a measure of reach, not of available crews.

These numbers for Fulton are screening-grade context for the whole county, drawn from public data with the gaps left visible. Read the figures for Fulton, Georgia together rather than one at a time: grid access matters less without substations near it, and a quiet queue reads differently inside an organized market than outside one. The next step for Fulton, Georgia is an address-level interconnection study; the county figures here only narrow where to look. For Fulton, Georgia, the source log below records where each figure comes from and when it was pulled, keeping the provenance visible.

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