Macon, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF HIGHLANDS - (NC), DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), GEORGIA POWER CO, HAYWOOD ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

161 kV

Substations in county

20

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

3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.8 to 11.8¢/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

641 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

75,477 employed in construction within ~120 km (42 of 43 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 Macon

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Macon, North Carolina. Transmission-class access reaches 161 kV in Macon at its strongest mapped point. Macon contains 20 mapped substations, a moderate footprint spread across the service area.

There is no organized wholesale market over Macon, North Carolina; arrangements run through the serving utility instead. Macon carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Macon, the per-utility spread is 3 of 6 serving utilities: 7.8 to 11.8¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Macon, North Carolina shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. The federal EIA-860M inventory files no planned or under-construction generation in Macon, North Carolina, a real zero rather than a gap. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Macon shows 641.018 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Macon, the USGS 2015 compilation records 574.73 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Macon sits within commuting range of roughly 75,477 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources