Harmon, OK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

AEP TEXAS NORTH COMPANY, GREENBELT ELECTRIC COOP, INC, HARMON ELECTRIC ASSN INC, LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRIC COOP, INC, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA, SOUTH PLAINS ELECTRIC COOP INC, SOUTHWEST RURAL ELEC ASSN INC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

69 kV

Substations in county

5

Industrial retail rate

6.2¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

1 of 8 serving utilities: 5.9¢/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

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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

1,362 employed in construction within ~120 km (10 of 19 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 Harmon

The material below frames Harmon, Oklahoma for a prospective large load, drawing only on public sources. At 69 kV, the strongest mapped access in Harmon is sub-transmission class. Only 5 substations is mapped in Harmon, Oklahoma, keeping interconnection points few.

Interconnection over Harmon runs through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool) and its rules. For Harmon, the rate shown is the state industrial average of 6.2 cents per kWh (EIA-861), a state figure and not a county-specific one. Beneath that state average, the utilities serving Harmon that report an industrial rate span 1 of 8 serving utilities: 5.9¢/kWh, shown as context and never as the county rate.

The covered queue feeds list nothing for Harmon, Oklahoma, which may be quiet or simply uningested. Nothing is on file for Harmon, Oklahoma in EIA-860M as planned or under construction, which counts as a measured zero. Harmon sits under a balancing authority that eGRID puts at 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

Harmon withdrew 29.29 million gallons per day for all uses in the USGS 2015 data, which counts demand, not headroom. About 1,362 people are employed in construction within a 120 km commute of Harmon (BLS QCEW), which frames staffing distance rather than free labour.

For Harmon, treat this as screening-grade county context useful for narrowing a search rather than settling a site. Taken together, the figures for Harmon, Oklahoma describe the grid around a prospective site, drawn from public data with their gaps left visible on purpose. To move past screening in Harmon, Oklahoma, a specific address needs its own interconnection study, which this page does not attempt. The figures for Harmon, Oklahoma refresh as their public datasets do, and the exact sources and dates sit in the source log below this section.

Sources