Robeson, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

BRUNSWICK ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, CITY OF LAURINBURG - (NC), CITY OF LUMBERTON - (NC), DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC WORKS COMMISSION, FOUR COUNTY ELEC MEMBER CORP, HORRY ELECTRIC COOP INC, LUMBEE RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP, MARLBORO ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PEE DEE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY, SOUTH RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP, TOWN OF RED SPRINGS - (NC)

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

51

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

6 of 13 serving utilities: 6.7 to 10.2¢/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

108 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

482 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

35,631 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 Robeson

This page gathers the public grid evidence for Robeson, North Carolina that bears on a large new load. The highest mapped voltage in Robeson is 500 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Robeson carries 51 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

Robeson, North Carolina lies outside an organized wholesale market, so generation and transmission are arranged bilaterally and through the local utility rather than a central market operator. The state industrial average retail rate is 7.8 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Robeson at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Robeson that publish a rate range 6 of 13 serving utilities: 6.7 to 10.2¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

Robeson, North Carolina shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 108 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Robeson. Grid carbon intensity for Robeson, via its balancing authority, is 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Robeson at 32.71 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Robeson, about 35,631 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 Robeson figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Robeson, 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 Robeson, North Carolina turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Robeson, 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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