Payne, OK: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CENTRAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC, CITY OF CUSHING - (OK), CITY OF ORLANDO - (OK), CITY OF YALE - (OK), INDIAN ELECTRIC COOP, INC, OKLAHOMA GAS & ELECTRIC CO, PUBLIC SERVICE CO OF OKLAHOMA, STILLWATER UTILITIES AUTHORITY

ISO / market

SPP (Southwest Power Pool)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

41

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

5 of 8 serving utilities: 5.5 to 12.2¢/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

419 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

872 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

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 Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

62,254 employed in construction within ~120 km (19 of 20 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 Payne

The sections below set out what public data shows about siting a large electrical load in Payne, Oklahoma. At 345 kV, Payne carries high-voltage transmission at its strongest mapped point. Payne contains 41 mapped substations, a dense footprint that spreads interconnection options across many points.

Wholesale activity over Payne clears through the SPP market (Southwest Power Pool), whose footprint sets how interconnection requests and capacity are handled. Payne carries the state industrial average retail rate of 6.2 cents per kWh from EIA-861, applied statewide. For Payne, the per-utility spread is 5 of 8 serving utilities: 5.5 to 12.2¢/kWh, which qualifies but never replaces the state average.

For Payne, Oklahoma, no queued project appears in the feeds currently covered. In Payne, 419 MW is filed as planned or under construction in the federal EIA-860M inventory. In eGRID, the balancing authority over Payne shows 871.526 lb CO2 per MWh.

For Payne, the USGS 2015 compilation records 5.51 million gallons per day of all-use freshwater withdrawals, not water available to a new load. Payne sits within commuting range of roughly 62,254 construction workers (BLS QCEW, about 120 km), most already committed elsewhere.

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

Sources