Garden, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

HIGH WEST ENERGY, INC, HIGHLINE ELECTRIC ASSN, MIDWEST ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, PANHANDLE RURAL EL MEMBER ASSN, WAPA-- WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION, WHEAT BELT PUBLIC POWER DIST

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

115 kV

Substations in county

4

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

4 of 7 serving utilities: 4.5 to 13.7¢/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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,760 employed in construction within ~120 km (10 of 13 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 Garden

Read on for the public power picture of Garden in Nebraska, assembled for data center siting. Transmission-class access reaches 115 kV in Garden at its strongest mapped point. Garden, Nebraska contains 4 mapped substations, a sparse footprint that concentrates interconnection options at a few points.

No organized wholesale market covers Garden, Nebraska, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. Garden carries the state industrial average retail rate of 8.0 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Garden, the per-utility spread is 4 of 7 serving utilities: 4.5 to 13.7¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Garden, Nebraska, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Garden, Nebraska, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Garden shows 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Garden, the USGS 2015 compilation records 35.57 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Garden sits within commuting range of roughly 1,760 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources