Cumberland, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP. - (NC), DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION, LUMBEE RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP, SOUTH RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

174

Industrial retail rate

7.8¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

5 serving utilities: 6.9 to 8.6¢/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

482 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

94,178 employed in construction within ~120 kmA 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 Cumberland

What follows is a screening-grade read of Cumberland, North Carolina, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Cumberland extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 174 substations into Cumberland, a dense spread of options.

Cumberland, North Carolina is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Cumberland, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 7.8 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Cumberland that report an industrial rate span 5 serving utilities: 6.9 to 8.6¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Cumberland, North Carolina, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Nothing is on file for Cumberland, North Carolina in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Cumberland sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh.

Cumberland withdrew 45.09 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 94,178 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Cumberland (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources