Power by county
Pickens, GA: data center power outlook
The grid around Pickens, Georgia is summarized here from public data, starting from the county's position in an area outside an organized wholesale market. Inside Pickens the mapped layer shows 15 mapped substations, with grid access reaching 230 kV at its strongest point. Retail service across Pickens is split among 2 utilities, among them AMICALOLA ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, GEORGIA POWER CO.
Grid position at a glance
- Serving utilities
- AMICALOLA ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, GEORGIA POWER CO
- ISO / market
- NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)
- Highest grid access
- 230 kV
- Substations in county
- 15
- 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
- 1 of 2 serving utilities: 7.1¢/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
- 4.9 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.
- Construction labor near site
- 177,479 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 Pickens
The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Pickens, Georgia. Transmission-class access reaches 230 kV in Pickens at its strongest mapped point. Pickens contains 15 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.
Pickens, 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. Pickens carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Pickens, the per-utility spread is 1 of 2 serving utilities: 7.1¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.
For Pickens, Georgia, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. No generation is filed as planned or under construction in Pickens, Georgia in the federal EIA-860M inventory, a measured zero rather than missing data. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Pickens shows 842.741 lb CO2 per MWh.
For Pickens, the USGS 2015 compilation records 4.89 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Pickens sits within commuting range of roughly 177,479 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.
Every figure for Pickens here is screening-grade and describes the county as a whole, not any single parcel within it. None of the figures for Pickens, 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 Pickens, Georgia requires a study of the specific parcel, a step beyond the county-level picture drawn here. Sources and data dates for Pickens, Georgia are logged directly below, so each figure on this page can be traced back to its public dataset.