Lee, KY: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CLARK ENERGY COOP INC - (KY), EAST KENTUCKY POWER COOP, INC, JACKSON ENERGY COOP CORP - (KY), KENTUCKY UTILITIES CO, LICKING VALLEY RURAL E C C

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

8

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

4 of 5 serving utilities: 7.1 to 8.8¢/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

6 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

1,894 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

25,623 employed in construction within ~120 km (41 of 53 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 Lee

Read on for the public power picture of Lee in Kentucky, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Lee at its strongest mapped point. Lee contains 8 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Lee, Kentucky lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. Lee carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Lee, the per-utility spread is 4 of 5 serving utilities: 7.1 to 8.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Lee, Kentucky has nothing in the interconnection queue across the feeds covered here, quiet or uningested. In Lee, 5.6 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Lee shows 1,894.234 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Lee, the USGS 2015 compilation records 1.04 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Lee sits within commuting range of roughly 25,623 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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