Union, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CITY OF MONROE - (NC), DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), LYNCHES RIVER ELEC COOP, INC, PEE DEE ELECTRIC MEMBER CORP, UNION ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP - (NC), YORK ELECTRIC COOP INC

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

46

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 7 serving utilities: 5.5 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

12 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

108,577 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 Union

Read on for the public power picture of Union in North Carolina, assembled for data center siting. At 500 kV, Union carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Union contains 46 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Union, 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. Union carries the state industrial average retail rate of 7.8 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Union, the per-utility spread is 5 of 7 serving utilities: 5.5 to 9.5¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

Union, North Carolina shows no interconnection-queue project in the covered feeds, whether from real quiet or a feed not yet loaded. In Union, 11.6 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Union shows 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Union, the USGS 2015 compilation records 17.15 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Union sits within commuting range of roughly 108,577 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

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