Edgecombe, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF ROCKY MOUNT - (NC), DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), EDGECOMBE-MARTIN COUNTY E M C, HALIFAX ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, PITT & GREENE ELEC MEMBER CORP, TOWN OF MACCLESFIELD - (NC), TOWN OF PINETOPS - (NC), TOWN OF SHARPSBURG - (NC), TOWN OF TARBORO - (NC), VIRGINIA ELECTRIC & POWER CO

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

230 kV

Substations in county

27

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 of 10 serving utilities: 7.8 to 9.0¢/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

75 MW planned or under constructionUnits 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

82,340 employed in construction within ~120 km (33 of 35 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 Edgecombe

For Edgecombe, North Carolina, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The strongest mapped access in Edgecombe is 230 kV, squarely transmission class. Edgecombe carries 27 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

No organized wholesale market covers Edgecombe, North Carolina, so capacity moves through the local utility and bilateral agreements. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.8 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Edgecombe at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Edgecombe that publish a rate range 5 of 10 serving utilities: 7.8 to 9.0¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

For Edgecombe, North Carolina, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 75 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Edgecombe. Grid carbon intensity for Edgecombe, via its balancing authority, is 716.09 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Edgecombe at 9.11 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Edgecombe, about 82,340 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 Edgecombe figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Edgecombe, North Carolina 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 Edgecombe, North Carolina turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Edgecombe, North Carolina traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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