Scotland, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF LAURINBURG - (NC), DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), LUMBEE RIVER ELEC MEMBER CORP, MARLBORO ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PEE DEE ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 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 5 serving utilities: 7.9 to 9.5¢/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

160 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

53,341 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 Scotland

What follows is a screening-grade read of Scotland, North Carolina, built only from named public datasets. Grid access in Scotland extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer places 20 substations across Scotland, a moderate density.

Sitting outside any organized market, Scotland, North Carolina handles interconnection through its utility rather than a central operator. For Scotland, 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 Scotland that report an industrial rate span 3 of 5 serving utilities: 7.9 to 9.5¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

Across the covered feeds, Scotland, North Carolina carries no interconnection-queue project, from either real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. EIA-860M records 160 MW planned or under construction for Scotland. Scotland sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh.

Scotland withdrew 7.26 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 53,341 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Scotland (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Scotland, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Scotland, 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 Scotland, North Carolina, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Scotland, North Carolina refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources