Wake, NC: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

DUKE ENERGY CAROLINAS, LLC, DUKE ENERGY PROGRESS - (NC), MECKLENBURG ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, NORTH CAROLINA EASTERN M P A, TOWN OF APEX- (NC), TOWN OF CLAYTON, TOWN OF WAKE FOREST - (NC), WAKE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP

ISO / market

NON_ISO (Not in an organized wholesale market)

Highest grid access

500 kV

Substations in county

137

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 8 serving utilities: 4.7 to 7.9¢/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

56 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

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

116,702 employed in construction within ~120 km (31 of 32 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 Wake

The material below frames Wake, North Carolina for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. Grid access in Wake extends to 500 kV, a high-voltage line class. The mapped layer packs 137 substations into Wake, a dense spread of options.

Wake, North Carolina is not inside an organized market, which leaves interconnection to the utility and bilateral contracts. For Wake, 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 Wake that report an industrial rate span 3 of 8 serving utilities: 4.7 to 7.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

No interconnection-queue project is on record for Wake, North Carolina in the covered feeds, which reflects either genuine quiet or a queue not yet ingested. EIA-860M records 56 MW planned or under construction for Wake. Wake sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 481.506 lb CO2 per MWh.

Wake withdrew 102.56 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 116,702 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Wake (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

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

Sources