Knox, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BARBOURVILLE UTILITY COMM, CORBIN CITY UTILITIES COMM, CUMBERLAND VALLEY ELECTRIC, INC., EAST KENTUCKY POWER COOP, INC, JACKSON ENERGY COOP CORP - (KY), KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

11

Industrial retail rate

7.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.4¢/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

716 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

29,614 employed in construction within ~120 km (36 of 46 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 Knox

Read on for the public power picture of Knox in Kentucky, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Knox carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Knox contains 11 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Knox clears through the PJM market (PJM Interconnection), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Knox carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Knox, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.1 to 9.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Knox, Kentucky 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 Knox, Kentucky, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Knox shows 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Knox, the USGS 2015 compilation records 0.8 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Knox sits within commuting range of roughly 29,614 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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