Furnas, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF ARAPAHOE - (NE), CITY OF BEAVER CITY - (NE), CITY OF CAMBRIDGE - (NE), MIDWEST ENERGY INC, PRAIRIE LAND ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHERN PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, TWIN VALLEYS PUBLIC POWER DIST, VILLAGE OF OXFORD - (NE)

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

18

Industrial retail rate

8.0¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 8 serving utilities: 6.4¢/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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

3,711 employed in construction within ~120 km (15 of 21 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 Furnas

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Furnas, Nebraska. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Furnas at its strongest mapped point. Furnas contains 18 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

Wholesale activity over Furnas clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Furnas carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Furnas, the per-utility spread is 1 of 8 serving utilities: 6.4¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Furnas, Nebraska shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. For Furnas, Nebraska, the EIA-860M inventory shows no planned or under-construction generation, a measured absence. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Furnas shows 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Furnas, the USGS 2015 compilation records 37.04 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Furnas sits within commuting range of roughly 3,711 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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