Frederick, MD: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

ADAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC, METROPOLITAN EDISON CO, NORTHERN VIRGINIA ELEC COOP, THE POTOMAC EDISON COMPANY, THURMONT MUNICIPAL LIGHT CO, VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO, WEST PENN POWER COMPANY

ISO / market

PJM (PJM Interconnection)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

36

Industrial retail rate

12.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 7 serving utilities: 2.9¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

294,436 employed in construction within ~120 km (43 of 45 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 Frederick

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Frederick, Maryland that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Frederick is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Frederick carries 36 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Frederick, the PJM market (PJM Interconnection) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 12.5 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Frederick at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Frederick that publish a rate range 1 of 7 serving utilities: 2.9¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Frederick, Maryland, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Frederick, Maryland, a real zero rather than a gap. Grid carbon intensity for Frederick, via its balancing authority, is 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Frederick at 34.91 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Frederick, about 294,436 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Frederick figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Frederick, Maryland qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Frederick, Maryland turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Frederick, Maryland traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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