Keith, NE: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CUSTER PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT, 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

345 kV

Substations in county

23

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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,257 employed in construction within ~120 km (9 of 14 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 Keith

What follows is a screening-grade read of Keith, Nebraska, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Keith extends to 345 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 23 substations into Keith, a dense spread of options.

Keith, Nebraska is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Keith, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 8.0 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Keith that report an industrial rate span 4 of 7 serving utilities: 4.5 to 13.7¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Keith, Nebraska, which may be quiet or simply uningested. EIA-860M lists nothing planned or under construction for Keith, Nebraska, which is a national filing and so a real zero. Keith sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Keith withdrew 108.79 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,257 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Keith (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Keith, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Keith, Nebraska describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Keith, Nebraska, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Keith, Nebraska refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources